Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death."Richly intricate and literate," James's second Cordelia Gray mystery "shows James at the height of her story telling powers" "(San Francisco Chronicle)."

L'île des morts

Dans l'Angleterre de 2021, frappée de stérilité comme le reste de la planète, plus aucun bébé n'a vu le jour depuis un quart de siècle. La population âgée s'enfonce dans le désespoir ; les derniers jeunes, jouissant de tous les droits, font régner la terreur ; le reste de la population s'accroche à une normalité frelatée sous l'autorité du dictateur Xan Lyppiatt.Cousin de ce dernier et historien, Theo Faron rencontre un soir une jeune femme, Julian, membre d'un groupuscule clandestin qui défie le pouvoir. Celle-ci va bientôt lui annoncer une nouvelle stupéfiante.

Les fils de l'homme

Une romancière à succès revient sur un crime commis dans la demeure de sa grand-mère pendant la guerre, un soir de réveillon. Un employé de bureau qui s'est introduit de nuit dans le bureau de son patron pour feuilleter ses revues pornographiques devient le témoin d'une aventure amoureuse illicite, et bientôt d'un meurtre qui le place face à un dilemme atroce. Le fringant inspecteur Adam Dalgliesh enquête sur la mort d'un patriarche qui s'est suicidé dans des circonstances suspectes, puis sur celle d'un très vieux monsieur très riche qui aurait été empoisonné par sa très jeune femme soixante-sept ans plus tôt...Dans la lignée de ses illustres prédécesseurs Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie ou G. K. Chesterton , Phyllis Dorothy James s'est adonnée avec brio à l'écriture de nouvelles piquantes et raffinées. Les plus savoureuses d'entre elles sont rassemblées dans ce recueil posthume où l'on retrouve avec bonheur la plume acérée de la grande dame de la littérature policière.

Les douze indices de Noël et autres récits

The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames.The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose ruthless ambition has made him many enemies: a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author and rebellious colleagues. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a killer who is prepared to strike again.Listening Length: 15 hours and 20 minutes

Péché originel

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).

La Proie Pour L'ombre (Cordelia Gray, #1)

"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest," wrote Samuel Johnson, and bestselling crime writer P.D. James took this maxim as a challenge, setting out to record "one year that otherwise might be lost." The result is a fascinating and reflective account, part diary and part memoir, of one very full year of Baroness James's life, interspersed with her memories and intelligent analysis of "what it was like to be born two years after the end of the First World War and to live for seventy-eight years in this tumultuous century." P.D. James grew up in Cambridge, England, between the wars and worked in the home office of the forensic and criminal justice departments, which sparked her interest in that area, though she did not become a published novelist until 1962 with Cover Her Face. She began to write full-time after her "retirement" in 1979, and along the way became a governor of the BBC before taking a seat in the House of Lords in 1991. Time to Be in Earnest is a lucid and penetrative work by one of the most influential figures currently involved with the arts in Britain. James reveals her vast scope for enjoyment, interest, and simply getting on with life (her husband, Connor White, died at the age of 44 in 1964 after years of mental illness), whether it be spending time with her children and grandchildren, musing on the hideous British architectural mistakes of the 1960s, or giving her view of the controversies continually surrounding the running of the BBC. At an age when many people would be considering slowing down, James seems constantly on the move, recording her day-to-day existence and her past with an alert and judicious eye. "I am sustained by the magnificent irrationality of faith," she states. "I inhabit a different body, but I can reach back over nearly 70 years and recognise her as myself. Then I walked in hope--and I do so still." --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk

Il Serait Temps D'être Sérieuse

Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange.

L'île des morts

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