Shroud For A Nightingale
(P.D. James)
Anyone who?s never read detective fiction because it?s
usually long on plot and short on character development
needs to pick up PD James. If you?re a James fan, welcome
back to the woman who put literary fiction and detective
story in the same sentence. Either way, you will really
enjoy one of her early novels, Shroud for a Nightingale.
This fourth book uses the classic detective fiction
structure of a murder that takes place among a closed
community of suspects.
A nursing student is murdered at Nightingale House, a
nursing school, in full view of a class of students and
several administrators. Nightingale House is living up to
its bloody past. When it was a private house, a servant
committed suicide on the grounds after being tortured by her
employers.
Adam Dalgliesh, Chief Superintendent from Scotland Yard, is
called in after a second student is murdered. A complex man
who is also a poet, Dalgliesh uses his deep understanding of
human psychology and his ability to remember details as he
attempts to find the killer. The pressure is intense from
the start since he realizes he?s looking for a murderer who
may strike again.
James draws even her minor characters with masterly detail.
One of these minor characters provides the clue that helps
to narrow the list of suspects. This writer pits Dalgliesh
against a number of strong women as he attempts to solve the
case. Matron Mary Taylor, the director of the nursing
school, is as astute and complex as Dalgliesh himself.
The final solution will leave you gasping for breath as it
twists and turns and surprises. You will learn about power
in all its manifestations from the Nazi era to the present
we now inhabit. Don?t start reading too late. You won?t want
to put Shroud for a Nightingale down until you?ve finished
this fine novel, which also happens to be a detective story.
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