**National Bestseller. ** Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh; Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets; ambitions; and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk; and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach; he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.