From the back cover: Elena, a young, flamboyant Cambridge student, the daughter of a professor nominated for a prestigious post, is found brutally murdered on an isolated jogging path. Frustrated by a rarefied world in which academic gowns hide murderous intentions, New Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Sergeant Barbara Havers sift contradictory … [Read more...] about For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George: B
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A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George: C+
From the back cover: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the … [Read more...] about A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George: C+
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George: B+
From the back cover: When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whateley 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 … [Read more...] about Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George: B+
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George: A
From the back cover: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-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, … [Read more...] about Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George: A
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George: A-
From the back cover: 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 … [Read more...] about A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George: A-