DEVICES AND DESIRES - Faber & Faber *New Edition*

PERFECT FOR FANS OF VAL MCDERMID, RUTH RENDELL AND ELLY GRIFFITHS
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Dalgliesh thought he was inured to horror – but this was the first time he’d stumbled upon a murdered body.

When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his late aunt’s estate. A serial killer known as ‘the Whistler’ has been terrorising the area – but it isn’t his case. He isn’t going to get involved.

Then, not far from his aunt’s home, he stumbles on a body. Unable now to keep his distance, he must navigate not only the looming weight of the power station’s influential leaders but his aunt’s friends and neighbours – all of whom could be suspects – if he wants to help the local police understand this latest crime.

But could there really be more than one murderer here?