REVIEW: Lighthouse

A novel by P.D. James

Starting to read a newly-purchased book, immediately the writing wasn’t interesting. The author didn’t keep me alert after a few pages. So I turned to a book I had for years, by the English mystery writer P.D. James.  Immediately I was hooked with her ‘Lighthouse.’ There was a definite distinct excellence to her prose. In this book she weaves many clues to a catching story about an offshore (12 miles) private island on the south coast of Cornwall, which few people are allowed to visit, where the accommodations are excellent. (Even a prime minister has visited here.) Here an unusual murder has been found. Scotland Yard sends in Police Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his expert team comb the island for the clues and find the murderer, but not before there are several plot twists. Baroness James of Holland Park has pulled off another in this 2005 thriller.

— Reviewed by Elliott Brack, Norcross, Ga.