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A Certain Justice
(Hardcover, 1997)
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Author: P. D. James
When successful criminal attorney Venetia Aldrige defends Gary Ashe against charges that he murdered...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375401091
ISBN-13: 9780375401091
Dec 1997
Publisher: Random House Inc
364 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
When successful criminal attorney Venetia Aldrige defends Gary Ashe against charges that he murdered his aunt, she has no idea that her actions will be the harbinger of her own death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh heads up the investigation into Aldrige's murder, and as more bodies pile up, he's forced to look deep into the darkness of the human soul to solve the case.
| Size | | Length: | 364 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Murderers do not usually give their victims notice."
Industry Reviews
"Meaty, handsomely-upholstered whodunit revolving around double homicide....A novel you can honestly call 'satisfying'; but, like one of those banquets you may breathlessly recall, just a touch too much of a good thing."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (11/19/1997)
"James's people are wounded, compromised, familiar souls, whose quotidian frailties are exposed through an eye that is more sharp than generous, often witty but seldom funny. Around her central drama, James creates these smaller worlds with forensic precision, using incredible and melodramatic death to illustrate credible and movingly recognizable lives."
New York Times Book Review - Ben MacIntyre (12/07/1997)
"In 'A Certain Justice,' it's not only the charismatic sociopath and the all-too-human cops who grab our attention. It's the aging barrister worried that he's losing his mind, the clerk forced into undesired retirement, the grandmother driven by grief to make a devilish bargain, the pathetic teenaged girl ready to die for love: They all have the dignity and the allure of their mysterious humanity. The way they all come together makes a darkly thrilling tale."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Kate Regan (11/30/1997)
"As the investigation progresses, the plot turns are ingenious, and James does a terrific job of using the information she gives us in unexpected ways. Toward the end of the book she flirts with one of the great transgressions of the mystery genre, hinting she might leave the crime unsolved. By the last 50 pages I was reading furiously, almost as anxious to see how she would handle this structural issue as to find out who the murderer was. I'm happy to report I was in no way disappointed."
Salon - Rachel Pastan (12/16/1997)
"Even more perfectly than the publishing house in 'Original Sin' (1995), Venetia's law chambers provide James with the ideal arena for her boundlessly compassionate probing of human frailty and for the shivery hope of goodness."
Rendell
"Leaving aside the somewhat perfunctory ending, A Certain Justice is, in its economy, its relative swiftness of pace, and the complexity of its characters, one of P. D. James's most accomplished recent novels; it includes, a rarity in this cerebral writer's work, several chapters of thriller-type suspense."
New York Review of Books - Joyce Carol Oates (02/05/1998)
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1997 - $1.29 Save 94%
Paperback, 1997 - $2.50 Save 90%
Paperback, 1999 - $0.75 Save 90%
Audio, 1998 - $20.92 Save 78%
Audio, 1997 - $0.75 Save 98%
Audio, 1997 - $130.56
Audio, 2001 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Book, 1997 - $0.75
Paperback, 2003 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1999 - $12.71
Digital - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2007 - $15.90 Save 54%
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