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En form for retfærdighed er tiende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard.

Advokaten Venetia Aldridge påtager sig at forsvare den unge Gary Ashe, som står anklaget for at have myrdet sin tante med koldt blod. Hun opfatter opgaven som rent rutinearbejde, en triviel lejlighed blandt mange til at brillere i retten og til at fremme sin i forvejen lysende karriere. Men sagen mod Gary Ashe udløser en kæde af frygtelige begivenheder, ingen havde kunnet forudse.

Then you're in for a treat. Volume three of our popular anthology series is sure to scratch that questionable itch. With stories by Michael Knost, William Joseph Roberts, Philip K. Booker, Christopher Woods, D. Raymond Smith, David Badurina, H.P. Holo, James Palmer, Jason Cordova, Lee Ellis, M Leigh, Michael Morton, Michael Craig, and Guest Editorial by Faith Hunter.

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 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.

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 of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants—and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son’s death.

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 Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered. Someone in the Dupayne is prepared to kill and kill again. Still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of the past featured in one of the museum’s galleries: the Murder Room.

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 peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered

"Mord på laboratoriet" er sjette bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. En ung pige findes stranguleret i nærheden af det retsmedicinske laboratorium. Kort efter finder endnu et mord sted, men denne gang inden for laboratoriets mure. Kriminalkommissær Adam Dalgliesh tilkaldes, og snart kommer han på sporet af spændte modsætninger og barske forhold mellem laboratoriets mennesker. "Mord på laboratoriet" udkom første gang i 1977.

"Indviet til mord" syvende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Onsdag den 18. september lidt før klokken ni om morgenen går ugifte, femogtresårige frøken Emily Wharton og Darren Wilkes, ti år gammel, hjemmefra, for at Miss Wharton, som hun altid gør onsdag og fredag, kan ordne blomster og lys i St. Matthew’s kirken i Paddington, London. Da det umage par når kirken, fornemmer de, at noget er galt. Kirkens sakristi har været rammen om et frygteligt blodbad. To mord er begået, og politiet bliver tilkaldt.

"Arvesynd" er niende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Scenen er et gammelt palæ i venetiansk stil ved Themsen, hovedsæde for det fornemme, traditionsbevidste forlag, Peverell Press. Et generationsskifte i ledelsen har imidlertid netop fundet sted, og den unge Gerard Etienne har mange fjender, endnu før han sætter sig i stolen. Da han findes myrdet, trænges de mistænkte på det nærmeste i korridorerne, og Adam Dalgliesh og hans assistenter føres ad mange spor og vildspor ind i en højst særpræget verden.