PD James’ latest Dalgliesh crime novel, The Private Patient (2008), is set largely in Devon at a manor house-cum-plastic surgery center. Central themes seem to include worthiness and what we deserve, revenge, redemption, forgiveness, the inability to forgive.
When the book opens, the reader is in the mind of the soon-to-be murder victim, Rhoda, and after [...]
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