Il Serait Temps D'être Sérieuse

Rien ne semble devoir troubler l’existence ordonnée et protégée de Pemberley, le domaine ancestral de la famille Darcy, dans le Derbyshire, ni perturber le bonheur conjugal de la maîtresse des lieux, Elizabeth Darcy. Elle est la mère de deux charmants bambins ; sa sœur préférée, Jane, et son mari, Bingley, habitent à moins de trente kilomètres de là ; et son père adulé, Mr Bennet, vient régulièrement en visite, attiré par l’imposante bibliothèque du château. Mais cette félicité se trouve soudain menacée lorsque, à la veille du bal d’automne, un drame contraint les Darcy à recevoir sous leur toit la jeune sœur d’Elizabeth et son mari, que leurs frasques passées ont rendu indésirables à Pemberley. Avec eux s’invitent la mort, la suspicion et la résurgence de rancunes anciennes.Dans La mort s’invite à Pemberley, P.D. James associe sa longue passion pour l’œuvre de Jane Austen à son talent d’auteur de romans policiers pour imaginer une suite à Orgueil et Préjugés et camper avec brio une intrigue à suspense. Elle allie une grande fidélité aux personnages d’Austen au plus pur style de ses romans policiers, ne manquant pas, selon son habitude, d’aborder les problèmes de société – ici, ceux de l’Angleterre du début du XIXe siècle.

La mort s'invite à Pemberley

Un village des Fens, au sud-est de l'Angleterre. Des marécages, de la pluie, la découverte d'un cadavre de femme. Le lendemain le Pr Lorrimer, responsable du service biologie d'un laboratoire de médecine légale, est à son tour troué assassiné dans son bureau, toutes portes fermées. Au fil d'une enquête extrêmement minutieuse parmi le personnel médical, le commandant Dalgliesh va démêler l'écheveau des passions et des rancœurs, pour aboutir à des mystères où sexe et superstition se rencontrent, bien loin de la rationalité scientifique. Passions destructrices, vérité psychologique extraordinairement fouillée : l'auteur de " Meurtre dans un fauteuil " et d' " Un certain goût pour la mort " (Grand prix de Littérature policière 1988) nous entraîne une fois de plus dans un cauchemar ambigu et troublant.

Mort d'un expert (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

"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

Les enquêtes d'Adam Dalgliesh, Tome 2

Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether it should be closed, one of them is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered. Someone in the Dupayne is prepared to kill and kill again. Still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of the past featured in one of the museum's galleries: the Murder Room.The case is fraught with danger and complications from the outset, but for Dalgliesh the complications are unexpectedly profound. His new relationship with Emma Lavenham -- introduced in the last Dalgliesh novel, Death in Holy Orders -- is at a critical stage. Now, as he moves closer and closer to a solution to the puzzle, he finds himself driven further and further from commitment to the woman he loves.The Murder Room is a powerful work of mystery and psychological intricacy from a master of the modern novel.

La Salle Des Meurtres

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

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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.

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