A classic whodunit, with clues sprinkled here and there, a great read to puzzle over on a Friday night. P.D. James writes with purpose and clarity, and with such insight into the thoughts of the characters, it took me some time to get them all straight, but by the end, I was pretty sure I knew who did it. I read the book in two settings. :)

Quotes:
Memory, selective and perverse, invested what had been a perfectly ordinary dinner party with an aura of foreboding and unease. It became, in retrospect, a ritual gathering under one roof of victim and suspects, a staged preliminary to murder. (page 9)

"They can be cruel, too, if you put them to work with an older woman. Have you seen young hens pecking away at an injured bird? Well, we only employ old birds here." (Miss Molpas, page 196)