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Well-Schooled in Murder
- Inspector Lynley, Book 3
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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Could be her best
- By Avid reader on 2018-12-21
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Payment in Blood
- Inspector Lynley, Book 2
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an 18-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain’s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Missing Joseph
- Inspector Lynley, Book 6
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village.
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Give this one a miss
- By Donna on 2019-02-23
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Playing for the Ashes
- Inspector Lynley, Book 7
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing best-seller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder, and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing - and no one - is really what it seems.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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In the Presence of the Enemy
- Inspector Lynley, Book 8
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed as the "king of sleaze", tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die.
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Excellant
- By Alison on 2021-06-19
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Deception on His Mind
- Inspector Lynley, Book 9
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo without her longtime partner, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people pay for deceiving others...and themselves.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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Could be her best
- By Avid reader on 2018-12-21
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Payment in Blood
- Inspector Lynley, Book 2
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an 18-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain’s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Missing Joseph
- Inspector Lynley, Book 6
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village.
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Give this one a miss
- By Donna on 2019-02-23
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Playing for the Ashes
- Inspector Lynley, Book 7
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing best-seller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder, and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing - and no one - is really what it seems.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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In the Presence of the Enemy
- Inspector Lynley, Book 8
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed as the "king of sleaze", tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die.
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Excellant
- By Alison on 2021-06-19
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Deception on His Mind
- Inspector Lynley, Book 9
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo without her longtime partner, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people pay for deceiving others...and themselves.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Payment in Blood
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.
Written by: Elizabeth George
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A Suitable Vengeance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 4
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Two murders, one on the heels of the other, point in the direction of Thomas Lynley's younger brother Peter - a cocaine addict who ruins Thomas' engagement party, then disappears on the evening of the second murder.
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Terrible narrator
- By Mikayla Miller on 2022-04-05
Written by: Elizabeth George
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A Place of Hiding
- Inspector Lynley, Book 12
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II. The St. Jameses must delve into Guernsey’s dark history - both past and present - and into the troubled psyche of someone who may have exacted retribution for the most unspeakable crime of all.
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A great listen but…
- By Cheryl-Ann on 2022-11-29
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Just One Evil Act
- A Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 28 hrs and 24 mins
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Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can't really help - Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn't on Hadiyyah's, their daughter's, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace.
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Difficult read.
- By Margaret on 2020-03-18
Written by: Elizabeth George
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The Punishment She Deserves
- A Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 22 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizens - Ian Druitt, the local deacon - is accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered? When Barbara Havers is sent to Ludlow to investigate the chain of events that led to Ian's death, all the evidence points to suicide. But Barbara can't shake the feeling that she's missing something.
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The hours just flew by.
- By Peter Malysewich on 2018-04-21
Written by: Elizabeth George
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This Body of Death
- An Inspector Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn't trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, but Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer's hard-as-nails exterior to a hidden and possibly attractive vulnerability.
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My Favourite, thus far!
- By Wendy Taylor on 2020-08-19
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Believing the Lie
- An Inspector Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.
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Homophobic trash
- By NONI BOYLE on 2021-03-28
Written by: Elizabeth George
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A Banquet of Consequences
- A Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
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The number one New York Times best-selling author’s award-winning series returns with another stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
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I love this series!
- By Wendy Taylor on 2020-09-08
Written by: Elizabeth George
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A Great Deliverance
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.
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Abridged edition
- By Avid reader on 2018-12-20
Written by: Elizabeth George
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Something to Hide
- A Lynley Novel
- Written by: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
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When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it.
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Best in the series!
- By Nicole on 2022-01-17
Written by: Elizabeth George
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The Crow Trap
- Written by: Ann Cleeves
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman hiding plenty of her own secrets.
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GREAT suspense!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-01
Written by: Ann Cleeves
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Dead Simple
- Roy Grace, Book 1
- Written by: Peter James
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared, and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing.
Written by: Peter James
Publisher's Summary
"The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published." (Entertainment Weekly)
When 13-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child - and then, tragically, for a child killer.
Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers’s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew’s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds - and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....
What the critics say
"A compelling whodunit...a reader's delight." (Daily News, New York)
"Like P.D. James, George knows the import of the smallest human gesture; Well-Schooled in Murder puts the younger author clearly in the running with the genre master." (People)
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- C. E. Pitchford
- 2019-01-13
Even Better
I read this books when it was published. It’s a great book! I have trouble with any sort of foreign accent because, with age, I’ve lost some hearing. But this reader adds to the story and her accent is perfect for all the characters!
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- StL Reader
- 2021-08-03
Annoying character development
Find this series intriguing in its time & place, but I may give up on it. The women side characters can be annoying - especially Deborah. She’s all hand wringing and self recriminating w/o talking to her husband. Just drags out the woe is me and for bizarre non-logical reasons.
We are told about her having 4 miscarriages in what is an 18 month marriage. That just seems like a really tight time frame for 4 pregnancies. In addition, Deborah thinks, and we’re expected to accept that the reason she keeps miscarrying is that she had an abortion 6 years previously. Thus her guilt & hand wringing. This is such tripe. Abortions do not cause a woman not to be able to carry a pregnancy in future. This is one of those false arguments that was trotted out to make women afraid to get abortions She had a medical procedure, not a back-alley job! She may have issues carrying a pregnancy (she won’t look into it, of course), but it’s NOT due to an outcome of some previous moral failing.
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- C. M. Updike Chilcoat
- 2020-02-07
Disturbing
Be warned, this novel is graphically disturbingly detailed in its description of mutilation of a child. Do not try reading before sleep. Good story, great description & exploration of UK's public school system.
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- Stevon
- 2020-04-23
EG
I'm still not sure what to think about these Elizabeth George novels with Inspector Lynley. They tend to start slow while building the setting and characters. Still they've all ended with a bang. The books have high ratings but the reviews don't follow that same positive note.
In this book the author creates a mythical British private school. It was good the author stated up front that the school is mythical since, if not, you'd be wondering the whole book if a school like this really exists and which one is it. Maybe the moral of the story is that all schools of this ilk have elements brought to the story.
There is a murder of a 13 year old boy and an old school chum brings Lynley into the investigation. The police team must start from scratch learning everything about the school and they find a lot of warts to say the least. Again, maybe the moral of the story is that all schools have these warts. There is an official and unofficial code of honor. There is breaking of the rules of all sorts; drinking, sex, bullying and the faculty and those surrounding the school get into the act. The detectives must work their way around all of these obstacles in solving the case. It's further complicated as Lynley went to a school just like it back in the day.
For me anyway, it's the characters that make the book a good one. The author seems to have good insight into human nature and does a good job of weaving it into the story.
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- Barry Frieder, MD
- 2019-07-16
a splendid work of art!
murder mysteries don't usually bring tears but this one was both brutal and profoundly touching.
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- K Brooks
- 2022-09-09
SPOILER ALERTS /TW- this is not a light hearted mystery
I read the first book in this series and enjoyed the writing style, but did not like the “twist” at the end…
When I pick up a British murder mystery I don’t expect to hear explicit descriptions of horrific child abuse/SA. I gave the second book in this series a chance, hoping it was a one off in the series, and I like the characters she developed. However, towards the end of this book I had to stop listening because the main character decided to protect a pedophile because they were school friends. I don’t know how/why she decided to write the story like this, but it seems to be making child abuse and pedophilia out to be “not that big of a deal”. I don’t think I can finish this book and certainly not the series, given how much she seems to write about unspeakable things. Maybe at the time these books were written it helped shine a light on this issue? But in 2022 I’d prefer something a little less disturbing. I know this might sound somewhat ironic as it’s a murder mystery, but children/animals being harmed is a different level of upsetting that I don’t want from my British murder mysteries.
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- Kathleen
- 2022-04-21
Ghastly without necessity (spoilers)
Although I totally enjoy the author’s gift of incredible detail and her ability to create visuals in every single scene, I as a retired teacher myself, was appalled to the core when our Detective decided to cover up the predilection for child sexual mutilation and torture in his former classmate. No teacher in a school can ever be left in a classroom after evidence that he enjoys the bondage and torture of children. That was truly disgusting. It only emphasized the old boys club that the detective is part of no matter what. Also there was no need to include the horrific descriptions of the torture of the young child at the heart of the story. Finally I agree with another reviewer about the incorrect view of abortion leaving behind so much scar tissue that a pregnancy later in life was impossible. I know this was written “Back in the day” but it is an indisputable editorial rather than medical observation. This book was a terrible miss for the author
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- S K Larsen
- 2021-08-04
excellent, as always.
I loved the book. it contains very good narration, a complex mystery, and excellent writing!
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- Josie
- 2019-12-09
Outstanding performance.
They don’t get any better than Ms Peters. Accents, character voices, interpretation, all of it. Her American accent (different book) is less than perfect, but I would hate to hear me trying to do British!
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- SK Smith
- 2019-11-28
Another superb mystery by Elizabeth George
This is the 3rd installment of the Inspector Lynley-Sergeant Havers series. There are enough twists and turns in this one to make your head spin! Every time I thought I had it figured out a new wrinkle came up. The author also adds a human touch describing how the murder affects so many people in different ways. We also learn about the emotional turmoil in the personal lives of Lynley, Havers, and Sir James and his wife Deborah. Very-well done!