Hubert is played by Michael Culkin, an Irish actor best known as Judge Buller in the BBC's Garrow's Law. He is an actor, director and writer of Moroccan-Croatian heritage, known for his roles in All Is Vanity, Quiz and Birthday.

PDJ is so readable in terms of her invention of characters and prose - but her plotting, especially her endings, is not great, and her social commentary is clumsy Tory-speak, almost designed to irritate me: Kate is the poster-girl for pulling herself up by her bootstraps (or whatever that Tory rhetoric is) and making good despite growing up on a council estate but she's still never allowed to feel at home in her upwardly-mobile world and turns down the opportunity to go to university on a police bursary because she predicts feeling out of place: it may or may not limit her career prospects but it certainly keeps her bound in intellectual and ideological terms especially as we see her constantly feeling awkward for not understanding the language of her peers (Piers talking about PPE at Oxford, for example) - you can take the girl out of the council estate but you can't take the council estate out of the girl, the text is telling us rather obnoxiously and patronisingly. A Certain Justice was adapted for television in 1998 as part of the long running Dalgliesh TV-series for Anglia Television/ITV (1983-1998) starring actor Roy Marsden as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. You can watch the 3 episodes of the 1998 adaptation starting with Episode 1 on YouTube here. This was Roy Marsden’s final performance as Adam Dalgliesh, as the role was taken over by Martin Shaw when the TV rights moved to the BBC for a short run of adaptations (based on Books #11 & 12) in 2003-2004. The conclusion of the book did flirt with an Unsatisfactory Ending Alert™, but I honestly can't used that tag for P.D. James as the novel was completely satisfactory otherwise. In the end, A Certain Justice is still achieved. We are immediately told who will die, but she doesn't die until a third of the book is gone, and our time with her makes us wonder why no one has killed her before this. She is brutally critical of everyone in her work and life. She is good at being a lawyer, but that good is spoiled by the reality that her expertise is put at the service of creeps. Aldridge’s personal life, too, is less than tranquil. When her lover, Mark Rawlstone, breaks off their affair, Aldridge threatens to make trouble, and Rawlstone, who is a member of Parliament, is concerned not only for his political career but also for his marriage. Although his wife Lucy knows about the affair, she is not aware of the fact that very recently, Aldridge, when she found herself pregnant, had an abortion. Mark, of course, was the father. If Aldridge spitefully informs Lucy about this matter, as she is threatening to do, the consequences could be disastrous because, after both Mark and Lucy had given up hope of having a child, Lucy, to their delight, is now pregnant. Mark does not want his wife to be subjected to any emotional stress, nor does he want her to find out about Aldridge’s pregnancy and its termination. As a fierce opponent of abortion, Lucy might well leave him, thus depriving her husband of the child he so desires and undoubtedly endangering his political career.A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. Silverfox. "Film review A Certain Justice aka Puncture Wounds", www.geeksyndicate.co.uk, published 10-12-2014. Retrieved 09-16-2015. A television version of the novel was produced for Britain's ITV network in 1998. It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh. Octavia tells Miskin that she and Garry are going birdwatching together. Miskin is honest: she thinks it’s weird that Garry happened to meet Octavia in a bar right after her mother got him acquitted.

The newcomer in the police force who rubs Kate up the wrong way is Daniel Tarrant, played by Alistair Brammer. Drysdale is played by Silas Carson, known for playing Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi and Viceroy Nute Gunray in the Star Wars prequels. The star is a member of the National Youth Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East's acting cohort. The police arrive outside the next morning. Garry tries to scarper, holding a knife to Octavia’s throat…Richard Harrington (Hinterland) as Dr David Rollinson - a forensic biologist who worked on dozens of cases with Lorrimer The actor recently appeared in Netflix’s Enola Holmes while his 115 previous roles also include appearances in Flesh And Blood, Grantchester, Inside No 9, 2017’s Gunpowder, Silent Witness, Snatch, Medici, Tina & Bobby, Rome as well as the films The King’s Speech, Valkyrie, The Bourne Identity and Darkest Hour. Vintage James. . . . Around her central drama, James creates these smaller worlds with forensic precision.” — The New York Times Book Review

Richard Goulding (The Windsors) as Lord Martlesham - he's interviewed by Dalgliesh after his name crops up Luu, Vivian. "Cung Le: Vietnamese should lend each other support". VietSun Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-04-06 . Retrieved 2014-06-09. This is the best murder-mystery novel in the Dalgliesh series so far. Here, James has combined a clever and complicated plot with just the right amount of suspense to keep you on edge. A clever and successful barrister is found dead in her chambers, stabbed at the heart, and Dalgleish and his team are drawn into a complicated web of retribution, vengeance, rivalry, and envy. When however the prime suspect dies, the story takes a different turn, making it even more complex and puzzling. Interestingly, this second murder creates a separate murder-mystery by way of a subplot. The two were interconnected of course, yet could be enjoyed as separate murder-mysteries. It was an interesting experiment of James and a highly successful one in my view.James also wrote An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982), which centre on Cordelia Gray, a young private detective. The first of these novels was the basis for both a television movie and a short-lived series. James expanded beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)—a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813)—amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen’s characters by situating them in the midst of a murder investigation. James’s nonfiction works include The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971), a telling of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 written with historian T.A. Critchley, and the insightful Talking About Detective Fiction (2009). Her memoir, Time to Be in Earnest, was published in 2000. She was made OBE in 1983 and was named a life peer in 1991. Froggart tells Dalgliesh he left the employment of Venetia’s father because the man was a sadist who bullied the schoolboys mercilessly. One boy – Marcus Campbell – took his own life because of it. Another ploddy mystery from PDJ which opens with an excellent trial scene but how did Ashe know about the glasses? but which ends with melodrama and an unsatisfying series of confessions. Sadly, the most interesting character gets stabbed to death in her chambers and there's the usual heavy-handed laying out of motives for everyone. Friel, Eoin. " Puncture Wounds movie review", www.theactionelite.com, published 03-17-2014. Retrieved 09-16-2015. Then Venetia is found murdered in Chambers, stabbed through the heart with a stiletto knife. I enjoyed this book the most because we knew Venetia's story before Adam Dalgleish, I have said before PD James's books can be difficult to follow but this made it easier.

As our novel opens, attractive, divorced, successful, hard-edged, unmaternal, unsympathetic barrister Venetia Aldridge is defending above nephew on the charge of murdering said aunt. She obtains an acquittal, and shortly thereafter finds that her 18-year old daughter has become engaged to the sociopathic young man. They've just met, and it hardly seems coincidental: someone is trying to piss Venetia Aldridge off. Quite a few people's lives would be made easier if Venetia were to pass from this earth, and we meet them, one by one. Soon Venetia meets her maker at the office, courtesy of a stiletto-sharp letter opener between the ribs. Enter the preternaturally lovely Commissioner Adam Dalgliesh - a man utterly at home in all situations - and his underling Kate Miskin, a woman continually pestered by her impoverished, urine-scented childhood - and we are off to the races. As always, James proves to be a masterful storyteller . . . she remains as intrigued by the mysteries of the human condition as she is by the intricacies of detection.” — The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. London-based actor Silas Carson has more than 80 roles to his name which includes appearances in the Star Wars prequels where he played Ki-Adi-Mundi and Nute Gunray while he’s also featured in The Gold, Grace, Des, Trust, Phantom Thread, Unforgotten, Waterloo Road and Holby City. DISCLOSURE: I obtained my copy of A Certain Justice by P. D. James, published by Ballantine Books, via Waitomo District Library. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.As always I enjoyed Adam Dalgliesh's intelligence, composure, tact, and subtle authority. I've liked him from the beginning despite his reticence, but he certainly has grown on me over the series. He has proven time and again that he is capable of human feelings, and that the constant intercourse with the criminal world has not hardened him. He is one of the reasons that I continued with the series even when some of the books sorely disappointed me. Dalgliesh won’t permit Miskin to treat Garry as a suspect. Edgar Froggart – a former teacher at Venetia’s father’s boys’ school – presents Dalgliesh with his copious notes on Venetia’s cases. A complex, gripping story. . . . It has the trademark virtues of James’s fictions: a dense weave of characters, a careful, winding plot, and above all a richly evoked sense of place.” — Newsday Brilliant criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge secures the acquittal of a young man from the charge of murdering his aunt. One of the best PD James I have read. The twist at the end is brilliant. Venetia a QC is murdered in her chambers office and there is an awfully long list of suspects. Most if her colleagues, the murderer Ashe she recently got acquitted and who has mysteriously started a relationship with her estranged daughter Octavia.