Oh so slow. How a book with this many deaths, plus incest and religious desecration could mostly be so dull and plodding I do not know. I was particularly bothered, though, by the insertion of a pedophile priest character -- because, incredibly, PD James seems only to have included him to express her indignation that such people might actually be prosecuted and imprisoned. According to her, molestation doesn't really hurt anyone as it is harmless touching. I am wondering if I'll be reading any more of her books, though I have been a long time reader. Dalgleish does develop a love interest -- in his veddy veddy British standoffish sort of way -- in this book, so maybe. But James needs to spend some time finding out how traumatizing child abuse is for VICTIMS.