Book - The Black Tower

Why did this book seem as interminable as the poor terminal patients? Not sure, but not going to bother trying to analyze it now. Overall, the plot was good, the ending satisfying, but the journey was not fun. Enjoyed the stark, harsh scenery, wished the characters were as interesting.

Dalgliesh is having a second lease on life after having been mistakenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. As he reviews his life and contemplates his options, murder happens.

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The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again.