A Taste for Death is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series.

The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's Live Flesh.

In the dingy vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Paddington, two bodies have been found with their throats slashed.

One is an alcoholic vagrant, whereas the other is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned government minister.

It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Wendy Hiller as Lady Ursula Berowne.