The Murder Room by P D James

As P D James died 2 days ago and I had admired her sharp mind so much, having seen her on TV and heard her on the radio, I decided to read one of her famous Adam Dalgliesh books. I don't like his name: he sounds like a dour Scot. But I am enjoying this book both for its literary descriptions and its brilliant analyses of what motivates people in living their lives. First she describes the outer appearance of her characters, and later she gets into them and tells you all about their childhood, their disappointed hopes, their careers and their sex lives in an omniscient way that is remarkable and rather disconcerting. How much do people give away to a gimlet eye like PD James's??