Here P.D. James is at her best, just a great novel that happens to be a mystery.

100% loved it.

Quotes:

" a fascination with the complexity of the intellectual bastions which men could construct to withstand the tides of disbelief" Piers Tarrant

"Maybe we'd do better if we tried to behave more like good animals and less like gods." Kate Miskin

"It was, he thought, a good time of year to look at trees." Adam Dalgliesh