Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Deception on His Mind
Working solo, Sgt Barbara Havers must probe the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart and the terrible price people pay for deception.
Genre: detective mystery
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s In the Presence of the Enemy
The kidnapping of a young girl echoes into the Home Office and DI Lynley and DS Havers may be drawing closer to a grim solution—and to danger—than anyone knows.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Missing Joseph
DI Thomas Lynley and Deborah and Simon St James uncover dark, complex relationships in a village where relationships bring men and women together with passion, grief, or the intention to kill.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s For the Sake of Elena
Dark secrets, multiple identities, and fleeting relationships clutter the investigation into a murdered Cambridge University student who had her own scores to settle.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Suitable Vengeance
A lethal series of events shatters the calm of a Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction—and a little too close to home.
Book Review: David Lawrence’s Cold Kill
Detective Stella Mooney is at a crime scene in a wintry London park where the brutalized corpse of a young woman has just been discovered. But Stella has her doubts when Robert Kimber confesses to the murder.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Well-Schooled in Murder
As DI Lynley, DS Havers, and Simon St. James unlock the secrets of Bredgar Chambers, their investigation leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Payment in Blood
No motive for the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair can be found, and the suspects include a famous actress, a theatrical producer, and the woman DI Lynley loves.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Great Deliverance
Murder has stunned the peaceful Yorkshire countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, beside her father’s headless corpse.
Book Review: David Lawrence’s The Dead Sit Round in a Ring
Detective Stella Mooney circles the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town with her personal life also going awry. Nightmares, too much vodka, and an attraction to another man contributes to her life falling apart,