Death in Holy Orders
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The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young…
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I’ve read every book by P. D. James and especially love her Adam Dalgleish series.
While the landscape in this book isn’t snowy, it is emotionally evocative, as it is a boy’s school attended by Dalgleish as a boy.
I was utterly stumped by the outcome and had to reread to find the clues I’d missed.
From Cedar's list on moody mysteries about murders in remote places during snowstorms.
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