Lighthouse James, P.D.

A murder on an isolated island. A storm rolling in. And three people who all have something to hide. P.D. James sends Adam Dalgliesh to Combe Island, a desolate rock off the Cornish coast, where a body has been found at the foot of a lighthouse. The victim was writing a memoir that threatened to expose powerful secrets. Now Dalgliesh must navigate the claustrophobic tension of a cut-off community where everyone is a suspect and no one is telling the whole truth. James orchestrates her final Dalgliesh novel with the precision of a master—atmospheric, psychologically complex, and morally ambiguous. The lighthouse itself becomes a character: cold, watchful, unyielding. Perfect for readers who like their mysteries literary, their settings gothic, and their detectives quietly brilliant.