Afterlife Allan Mallinson but also her mothers and

but also her mothers and her own

who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station

gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a 'small war' with devastating consequences

disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their society

The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh

Afterlife Allan Mallinson but also her mothers andThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.