Books with author P. D. James

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her chambers. Commander Adam Dalgleish, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients she has defended, her colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgleish and his team narrow the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

Explore the unexplored - enter The Wilds of the Forgotten Realms(R)! One hundred years ago, the Akanamere was ravaged by the Spellplague, drying the lake and leaving behind a nightmarish landscape of frozen waves, distorted creatures, and a strange being whose song drives listeners to carry out what they believe are the singer's orders. When a genasi girl is kidnapped by these fanatics, her troubled sister must brave the wilds of the Mere-That-Was to save them both from an gruesome fate.

Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, something carried off Tommy Tonompicket and his unlikely drinking companion, research scientist William Pizinski, in the black chill of the Colorado night. And something ripped the head off a man outside a lonely cabin in the mountains...and left two large, fanglike punctures in his chest. And though Charlie's eccentric old aunt, the shaman Daisy Perika, claims the gargantuan avenging arachnid Grandmother Spider has risen up from the depths of Navajo Lake, the hulking, good-natured tribal policeman feels in his gut that this is murder, pure if not simple, and most probably by human hands.

Mrs. Maxie had to cope almost single-handed with a large house and an invalid husband; but when she took Sally Jupp from the village home for unmarried mothers to help at Martingale there was much head-shaking in the village. It was bound, people said, to lead to trouble; bound, people said, to lead to trouble; but not even the most pessimistic of the local Cassandras ever guessed how disastrous for the Maxies that trouble was going to be. The real Sally Jupp, pretty, ambitious, and clever, was a very different person from the meekly grateful repentant sinner that she seemed to be - and her stay at Martingale ended in violence and death. Throughout the summer tension in the house rose; and it reached its shattering climax on the night of the annual fete. By morning Sally was dead and Chief Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh and his sergeant arrived in the peace of a country Sunday to investigate a killing as puzzling and mysterious as the character of Sally herself. Book Dust Jacket

Charlie Moon, Ute rancher and investigator, isn't afraid to throw the dice even when a man's life is at stake, but when that man is betting against himself and Moon's ability to save him, that makes for some awfully high stakes.Hard times have come to Colorado, and Moon's ranch is feeling the pinch. Investor Samuel Reed has never had that problem. He seems to have a special intuition when it comes to picking stocks and claims to be able to remember the future, which gives him quite a leg up on Wall Street. So it's no surprise that Reed is confident when he makes a wager with Moon's best friend, Granite City Chief of Police Scott Parish, that Parish can't keep him alive. Even when Reed doesn't give them any details beyond the date and time of his impending demise, that's more than enough information for Moon who wants in on the action and is just as confident that he's well on the way to saving his ranch. But Moon's best plans go awry when instead of one homicide on his hands, he ends up with two.James D. Doss infuses the pages of A Dead Man's Tale, the fifteenth in his popular series, with his potent brand of high spirits and homespun humor that has made him a favorite among mystery readers.

Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021. Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably, as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. PD James is the world's pre-eminent crime writer, most famous for her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries and for her bestselling titles Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room. Children of Men was adapted into a hit film in 2006, directed by Alfonso Cuarón the film starred Clive Owen, Michael Caine and Julianne Moore.

Only a few centimeters of graphene separate Dome Six from a deathscape. Why would somebody want to sabotage it?Cytocorp built eight Domed cities to protect America’s best and brightest from a deadly climate event. Once they lost contact with the outside world, their only hope was to survive long enough for conditions to improve. Four generations later, Tosh is still waiting.When critical systems start to fail, mortal fear grips the city. The ruling Authority blames a saboteur, but when the noose tightens around Tosh's family, it's the last straw. Her quest for answers leads her back to the defining event of her life — her parents' mysterious deaths.But truth, like hope, has always been in short supply. Each new layer Tosh peels away only reveals another. Will she uncover the Dome's secrets before it becomes her tomb?Chaos within, death without. This is Dome Six.Dome Six is a high-concept, Earth-based dystopian adventure with influences from genre classics like 1984 and Wool to modern cinema such as Ascension and Westworld. If you like future science, satisfying surprises, and brainy heroes, you’ll devour this fast-paced first entry in C.P. James’ breakout series, The Cytocorp Saga.