'Saving Caravaggio' is a thrilling story of intrigue and personal crusades, that combines the dark atmosphere of Naples with a determined pursuit of passion.

Commander Dalgliesh investigates murder in the world of the law. When Venetia Aldridge QC defends young Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, this for her is just one more case, one more opportunity to triumph in a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But R. v. Ashe sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable And when, four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk in her Middle Temple chambers, a blood-splashed wig on her head, Dalgliesh and his team are called in to a case which promises to be as sensitive as it is intriguing. And then, at a crucial point in the investigation, one of the small group of suspects is found with a severed throat in a welter of blood, and the case spins into fresh complexities of horror.

P. D. James once again demonstrates the truth of Orwell's saying that murder, the unique crime, should arise only from strong emotions. No one handles them with more authority and sensitivity.

A Certain Justice displays those qualities which aficionados of the classic detective novel have come to expect of P. D. James: a strong plot superbly handled, credible detection, excitement and suspense and characters who live on in the memory.

Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.

'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James, Mail on Sunday
'Rumpole has ascended to the pantheon of literary immortals' Daily Telegraph