Reviews"Like the wind-lashed Norfolk headland buffeted by the sea, which is so tangibly evoked, Devices and Desires -- has an intensely bracing chill." --Sunday Times "The characters are vibrant, the writing distinguished, the descriptions of mood and landscape perfect -- a haunting Norfolk mist of dread, loneliness and ancient history." --Sunday Express From the Trade Paperback edition., "Like the wind-lashed Norfolk headland buffeted by the sea, which is so tangibly evoked,Devices and Desires-- has an intensely bracing chill." --Sunday Times "The characters are vibrant, the writing distinguished, the descriptions of mood and landscape perfect -- a haunting Norfolk mist of dread, loneliness and ancient history." --Sunday Express From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisA serial killer of women is on the loose on the Norfolk coast in a community overshadowed by the Larksoken nuclear power station. Commander Dalgliesh, who is staying at his aunt's converted windmill, becomes in-volved in the hunt for the murderer, a search that implicates him in the concerns and dangerous secrets of the headland community. From the Trade Paperback edition.