#p.d. james

[quotefeeling]

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

P.D. James

[voyageuse-ff]

Symmetry;

Dalgliesh | Devices & Desires

[didanagy]

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY (2013)

dir. daniel percival

[thoughtkick]

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

P.D. James

[thehopefulquotes]

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

P.D. James

[librarylady24]

His effect appears universal. 😆

[dreamingstilluniverse]

Made a little Adam Dalgliesh moodboard/aesthetic ^.^

Second moodboard here: 2

[oldshrewsburyian]

I am about to run out of Vera Stanhope novels, and aside from reading Shetland novels, I am without hope in a bleak landscape of inferior mysteries. Have long since consumed Sayers, Penny, Le Carre, Elizabeth George. Dared to dabble in Patricia Cornwell. Gave up on Val MacDermid (which I hate to admit) because I got annoyed at her spotty - to me- character development. Any suggestions for detectives?

Yes! The Shetland novels are great, but of course there are only four of them. Beyond those:

P.D. James has gorgeous prose and I love her Inspector Dalgleish; there are 15 of those novels

Tana French, Dublin Murder Squad; the prose and the characters are absolutely great

Qiu Xiaolong, Inspector Chen Cao series (Death of a Red Heroine is the first, and it's great; the series can be harder to find than the others)

Georges Simenon, Maigret novels; these are classics for a reason, and I think they've been getting new translations, but if you're up to reading them in French, the French is great

ETA: can't believe I forgot Donna Leon's Brunetti series! Atmospheric, humane, really interesting