National Bestseller.

Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling
and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions,
and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland
Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity
on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left
to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler
of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every
killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative
Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets
of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.