书名：Death in Holy Orders神谕之死
作者：P. D. James
出版社名称：Faber & Faber
出版时间：2020

语种：英语
ISBN：9780571355716
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.3 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装
页数：560（以实物为准）

Thoroughly gripping. ― Guardian

Pure pleasure. ― Spectator

A grand gothic novel of gut-wrenching suspense, satisfying at all levels . . . Nobody can put the reader in the eye of the storm quite like P. D. James. ― Sunday Express

is a long time since I immersed myself in a book with such blissful enjoyment. ― Country Life

英国东海岸的古老神学院，一名学生被发现活埋在沙堆下，警方判定其为意外死亡。

名侦探达格利什临危受命。在他开展调查时，又一位访客被残忍杀死在教堂油画《末日的审判》下，油画还被涂上了一个张牙舞爪的魔鬼。这次死亡开始暴露了所有人埋藏的秘密。

学生、教职工、访客，每个人都在隐瞒着什么，每个人似乎都有嫌疑……

一所与世隔绝的神学院，四起连续的死亡，七段背负着罪恶的过去。究竟是谁打破了宁静，在此大开杀戒？

在你以为安全的地方，谋杀才刚刚开始。

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder.

P.D.詹姆斯出生于英国伦敦牛津，尽管只有高中毕业，但詹姆斯凭借其勤奋自修的学识，与文笔脱俗的创作，得到文学圈极高的赞誉。她三十八岁开始发表作品，四十二岁时完成长篇推理《掩上她的脸》（Cover Her Face，1962），赢得文坛一片赞赏。她的作品《夜莺的尸衣》和《教堂谋杀案》均获得CWA和MWA最佳小说奖。

由于写作有成，她获得许多国际知名文学奖，包括在英国犯罪作家推理协会颁发的、有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的“钻石匕首奖”，并受英国皇室勋封为女男爵，更获颁美国侦探作家协会终身成就奖——“大师奖”，以及“爱伦·坡奖”。

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).