A Taste For DeathTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous

standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses

The investigator (Pine) works for the International War Crimes Tribunal

And their only hope of catching the murderer lies in apparently meaningless ramblings written on corpses and the advice of a twisted sociopath

Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel

yet never fails to entertain

and they won't stop until they reach Rome itself

loss and those memories we hold closest to our hearts

a young black girl

ignored and patronised by the people and treated like second-class citizens

except for the one thing she yearns for the most: her globetrotting parents - who frequently leave her behind when they venture off on their exploring adventures

chief city of Airstrip One

'Immersive and timeless