P. D. James: A Certain Justice (USA 2019)

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When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister's wig on her head. And as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard attempts to make sense of events, the murders continue, inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: 9780593080993 (December, 2019), 2.48 MB (ca. 464 p.), $11.99.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (UK 2018)

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Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her chambers. Commander Adam Dalgleish, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients she has defended, her colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgleish and his team narrow the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. Faber & Faber, ISBN: 9780571346226 (October, 2018), 569 p., £8.99.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (UK 2010)

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From P. D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the tenth novel to feature commander Adam Dalgliesh. A Certain Justice is a chilling murder mystery packed with forensic detail, set in the treacherous legal world of London.

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

P. D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death In Holy Orders, once again explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. A Certain Justice is set in the legal world of London and possesses all of the qualities which distinguish P. D. James as a novelist.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Faber & Faber, ISBN: 9780571248872 (August, 2010), 569 p., £7.99.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister's wig on her head. And as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard attempts to make sense of events, the murders continue, inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. An Adam Dalgliesh Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345425324 (October, 2007), 443 p., $17.00.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (USA 1998)

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When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister's wig on her head. And as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard attempts to make sense of events, the murders continue, inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345430573 (October, 1998), 431 p., $7.99.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (UK 1998)

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Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina vs. Ashe initiates events both frightening and unpredictable.

Just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her Middle Temple Chambers. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh and his team narrow the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. Penguin, ISBN: 0140274685 (April, 1998), 481 p., £5.99.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (USA 1997)

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It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed -- and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders...

A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest. In her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, she has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror. As each character leaps into unforgettable life, as each scene draws us forward into new complexities of plot, she proves yet again that no other writer can match her skill in combining the excitement of the classic detective story with the richness of a fine novel. In its subtle portrayal of morality and human behavior, A Certain Justice will stand alongside Devices and Desires and A Taste for Death as one of P.D. James's most important, accomplished and entertaining works.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0375401091 (December, 1997), 364 p., $25.00.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice (UK 1997)

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When Venetia Aldridge QC defends young Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, this for her is just one more case, one more opportunity to triumph in a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina vs. Ashe sets in motion a chain of events a terrifying as they are unpredictable. And when, four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk in her Middle Temple chambers, a blood-splashed wig on her head, Dalgliesh and his team are called into a case which promises to be as sensitive as it is intriguing. Who hated Miss Aldridge enough to kill? Her lover? Her ex-husband? An aggrieved client? A colleague or one of the staff in chambers? Someone who hated the lawyer as much as he feared the woman? And then, at a crucial point in the investigarion, one of the small group of suspects is found with a severed throat in a welter of blood, and with this second murder the case spins into fresh complexities of horror.

P.D.James once again demonstrates the truth of Orwell's saying that murder, the unique crime, should arise only from strong emotions. No one handles them with more authority and sensitivity. A Certain Justice, set in the legal world, displays those qualities which aficionados of the classis detective novel have come to expect of P. D. James: a strong plot superbly handled, credible detection, excitement and suspense, and characters who live on in the memory. A Certain Justice is a worthy successor to the acclaimed Original Sin.

P. D. James: A Certain Justice. Faber & Faber, ISBN: 0571191649 (October, 1997), 390 p., £15.99.