The Lighthouse by P. D. James

When I first started reading crime fiction as a kid, I of course started with the master Agatha Christie - and in many ways her books have remained for me as the blueprint of how crime fiction, books or TV, should be done. Murder mystery with complicated relationships, secrets and lies - and most of all clues, so that the reader has a possibility to solve the problem too. Unfortunately, they don't make them like they used to... as much as I love my contemporary favourites, it's never quite the same - at the moment especially sick perverted sexually motivated murders are very popular, and while they are initially shocking and all that, there's only so many you can read before they lose interest.

I mean, even P. D. James does it - her previous book Murder Room had a very modern sexual undertones. So I wasn't expecting the treat that I got with her latest, The Lighthouse. This book could have come straight from Christie's pen - it's an old fashioned murder mystery. It features a murder of an old unpleasant man on an isolated island full of people who had both the motive and the opportunity, and a clever investigato who has to find a way to uncover the secrets and solve the mystery! Perfect!

Execution was just perfect to a tee. I understand that crime fiction moves on, and the modern genre has many good sides the old one just wasn't capable of - but boy did it feel good to read a book like this, one more time.

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