P. D. James

P. D. James

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A Certain Justice
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A Certain Justice
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 18 hours 14 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one... Read more
A Mind to Murder
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A Mind to Murder
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (13259 ratings)
(13259 ratings)
Award-winning author P.D. James’ second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD!When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in... Read more
A Taste for Death
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A Taste for Death
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 22 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit... Read more
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
P. D. James is “the reigning mistress of murder.” –Time 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... Read more
Cover Her Face
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Cover Her Face
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (37730 ratings)
(37730 ratings)
P. D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.” –People Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland... Read more
Death Comes to Pemberley
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Death Comes to Pemberley
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
  • Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.   It is 1803, six years... Read more
Death in Holy Orders
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Death in Holy Orders
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Charles Keating
  • Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2001
  • Language: English
  • (16319 ratings)
(16319 ratings)
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... Read more
Death of an Expert Witness
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Death of an Expert Witness
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
The sixth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series, which led Newsweek to crown P. D. James “the new queen of crime.”An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery.... Read more
Devices and Desires
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Devices and Desires
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 18 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
National Bestseller.  Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk... Read more
Innocent Blood
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Innocent Blood
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a... Read more
Original Sin
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Original Sin
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV Commander Adam... Read more
Shroud for a Nightingale
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Shroud for a Nightingale
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (25673 ratings)
(25673 ratings)
P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is... Read more
Sleep No More
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Sleep No More
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Daniel Weyman
  • Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the... Read more
Talking about Detective Fiction
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Talking about Detective Fiction
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Diana Bishop
  • Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (1677 ratings)
(1677 ratings)
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing... Read more
The Black Tower
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The Black Tower
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder”(Time), P.D. James, is now available on CD. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an... Read more
The Children of Men
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The Children of Men
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: David Case
  • Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.   Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives... Read more
The Lighthouse
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The Lighthouse
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Charles Keating
  • Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the... Read more
The Mistletoe Murder
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The Mistletoe Murder
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Jenny Agutter
  • Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time–swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author’s own word, add up to a delightful... Read more
The Murder Room
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The Murder Room
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Charles Keating
  • Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
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... Read more
The Private Patient
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The Private Patient
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
  • Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a... Read more
The Skull Beneath the Skin
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People 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... Read more
Unnatural Causes
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Unnatural Causes
  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta
  • Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
Award-winning author P.D. James third mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD!Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer–but no murder from his imagination could equal the... Read more

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Healing without Hurting Jennifer Giustra-Kozek is a therapist who practices in Connecticut, and is also the mother of a son with Autism Spectrum disorders. After treating Evan bio-medically, along with other healing practices, Jennifer witnessed the kind of improvements that every parent of a similarly diagnosed child dreams of: Evan no longer grunts and screams, throws toys, hits others, or has mood swings. He no ... Read Book
Fashionopolis *NYTBR Paperback Row Selection * The Independent‘s Best Fashion Book on Sustainability* An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the ... Read Book
Across the Sand “Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” –Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their ... Read Book
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Flipped The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple—by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia from one of the staunchest Republican strongholds to the nation’s most watched battleground ... Read Book
The Book of Dragons The Book of Dragons is a collection of children’s stories by English writer Edith Nesbit, who wrote under the name E. Nesbit in order to obscure her gender. Comprising eight stories originally published in 1899 in The Strand magazine, The Book of Dragons is a work that explores the magic and wonder of mythical beasts for children and adults alike. The dragons are hardly ever nice, but E. ... Read Book
Mary Shelley ‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…’ – Financial Times‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘Brilliant and enthralling’ – Independent On Sunday‘Wonderfully vivid’ – SpectatorThe definitive and richly woven ... Read Book
The Wendy Williams Experience In the dishiest book of the year, the top-rated and controversial radio host delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly on the industry’s biggest stars. But we’ll let her speak for herself:   Whitney Houston: “We have watched her go from our princess . . . to what looks like one step above a crackhead.”   Lil’ Kim: “[She] started out as a black girl from the hood and now she’s ... Read Book
The House of Morgan Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched and written,” the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the ... Read Book
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