P.D. James: Unnatural Causes

From the Publisher:
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh was looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head. There would be long walks, tea in front of the fire, and, best of all, no corpses. But he reckoned without the discovery of crime-writer Maurice Seton's mutilated body.

P.D. James: Unnatural Causes. Faber and Faber, ISBN: 0571204104 (May, 2002), 226 p., £6.99