Devices and Desires

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, having published his second volume of poetry, retreats to the remote Larksoken headland where his recently deceased aunt, Jane Dalgliesh, left him a converted windmill. However, a psychopathic mass murderer, known as the Norfolk Whistler, is on the loose and seems to have arrived at Larksoken when Dalgliesh finds the body of the nearby nuclear power plant's Acting Administrative Officer during an evening stroll on the beach. We then watch the effect a following series of interlocking plots have on each other, and on the lives of the book's protagonists

Author: P.D. JAMES

Publisher: PENGUIN

Year: 1990