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Title: A well written disappointment.
Review: PD James' books are so engaging due to a combination of a clever who-dunnit mixed with literary observations about the human condition. She elevates the genre head and shoulders above anyone else writing in the same vein. However in A CERTAIN JUSTICE, the mystery side of it is not rewarded by clever deduction but rather by an ordinary chain of events. The solution is not arrived at via sleuthing but by a chain of events that would have occured had anyone been assigned to the case. The opening book is the most intriguing. Downhill from there. Real disappointing.
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