THE MURDER ROOM
PD JAMES
British classic crime interlude. This is another incredibly reassuring genre of books for me, and James is an old favourite.
Set in England. Featuring well-read Detective Inspectors. Dealing with regular, garden-variety murder. As opposed to obscure, psychopathic killers who need to be 'profiled' by the FBI before they can be caught.
Written elegantly. Never to be confused with the thriller-to-be-read-on-a-flight made popular by the Americans. I've heard this quality described as 'not dumbed-down', but it's a little more than that, I think. A book like this is clearly crafted to be a novel first, and a detective story second.
This one, for instance, takes you to an invented London museum devoted to war memorabilia. And stars mild-mannered, poetry-writing Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh.
A hundred pages in, and loving this familiar feeling.
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