- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
By P. D. James
One disadvantage of reading one book from a series is that you have to tolerate a lot details, romantic ones typically, of the main characters that absolutely unrelated to the development of the story. And this is the case with the Lighthouse, in which many pages and even some short chapters you can safely skip.
The story develops in the same fashion as Murder on the Oriental Express or Gosford Park. It contains fairly interesting suspensions and surprises, but the ending is rather disapointing. It comes with a sudden enlightenment upon the detective (by SARS?) that only connects to a few unexciting details revealed earlier. Like most of the suspense, it ends rapidly with a very unnessesary scene at the lighthouse. Another tiger head and snake tail.
As for the writing, apart from the dragging details about major characters romantic relationship, the book is full of pretnetious quotes which make the reading less serious.
