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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…
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1 author picked Death in Holy Orders as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’ve read every book by P. D. James and especially love her Adam Dalgleish series.
While the landscape in this book isn’t snowy, it is emotionally evocative, as it is a boy’s school attended by Dalgleish as a boy.
I was utterly stumped by the outcome and had to reread to find the clues I’d missed.
From Cedar's list on moody mysteries about murders in remote places during snowstorms.
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