Querulous: the death of the daughter she hadn’t wanted to bear, cooped up inĪ high-rise flat where she hadn’t chosen to live, burdened by an illegitimate It wasĪlways with relief that she would hear her grandmother’s frail and querulous High-rise, the balcony rail trembling, then breaking in her hands. Rescue, a plane crashing through the window, an earthquake shattering the Would drag on her clothes at the moment of waking, desperate to be ready toĬope with the expected disaster: a fire in one of the flats below preventing It was partly by choice, partly a legacy of herĬhildhood, when, burdened with the daily dread of imagined catastrophe, she Office and, even on a rest day, showered, clothed and breakfasted. Normally, long before this hour, she would have been at her In her flat above the Thames, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin Detective Inspector Kate Miskin and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith join Dalgliesh on the island, and work together to solve the Leaves behind office work that he’s glad to delegate, and Emma, whom he Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called on to investigate the murder of aĪn exclusive refuge off the Cornish coast. I enjoyed each page to the end, thanks to her fine writing. Guessed the murderer during the first half of P.D.
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