# A Taste for Death

**Author(s):** P. D. James
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, mystery, police-procedural, thriller
**Pages:** 656
**Publisher:** Faber & Faber, Limited
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 1990 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780571248919
**ISBN-10:** 0571248918
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-taste-for-death

## Description

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 throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation