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Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard detective with a love of poetry and a personal connection to a small theological college on England’s East Anglian coast, is called to investigate the burial of a student in the sand. Facing the pressure of the student’s influential father, Dalgliesh enters a community of faculty, clergymen, and students where hidden passions and a fragile sense of faith collide. As one death leads to another, he confronts a twisted series of crimes that threaten to unravel the very moral fabric of the institution.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: P. D. James
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