This is more of a two and a half star book. It kept me entertained, but just barely. The murder mystery was interesting, but the interspersed child murder case file was out of place and disturbing. Also, the book was slow and had some characters that weren't very likable. The most notable was the...
It is a long story, a heavy read for me. But surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. Elizabeth is very good at telling a story, describe her characters in great detail, to some extend that I thought it is too much, and became extraneous.But I still quite enjoyed the book. The story started with an un...
The thing that I hate so much about the Detective Lynley series, is how addicting these books are. This one especially. I think that Elizabeth George has outdone herself this time. It was very hard to put this book down, to get other things done. And, I am left with that forlorn feeling that ...
Actually, I didn't finish this book today, I gave up on it. Which is unusual for me. I usually love Elizabeth George's novels, but I couldn't get into this one. I found I had no desire to keep reading it and didn't care what happened in the end. I'm sure the essential points will be apparent in t...
Becca King has been abandoned. She doesn't know it. She thinks her mother has left her to stay with a friend and will be back to pick her up when things are more under control. But the friend has died. And when Becca tries to call her mother over the next few days there is never an answer.Becca m...
My only issue with this book was the constant negativity toward a few extra pounds on a 14 year old. From the main character's mother to her supposed best friend. When she lost the few extra pounds by riding her bike every day for miles on end, George made sure that one of the main male charact...
3.5 Stars, I donno there was a twist at the ending which was kinda like, OF COURSE THAT WOULD'VE HAPPENED... And in the book there were a lot of things happening at once and there was somethings that didn't make sense like. So she tries to call her mom and it's out of range, but she can call the ...
The Edge of Nowhere is a thrilling realistic teen-fiction book. The story is a quick paced teen-fiction like no other with a surprising twist at the end. If you liked the book Shackled then you will love this. Picture a young girl no more than 15, who has a dark secret no one can know. She then ...
I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, because it started out a little slow. Then of course, the plot thickened and I needed to know the conclusion (of course!). I love mysteries, and this was pleasant to read even though I didn't recognize the traditional mystery format within it. ...
Elizabeth George, unfortunately, is particularly skillful at creating characters that are engaging and realistic. Her protagonists are particularly attractive characters. And her mystery plotting is just as careful and skillful. I say unfortunately because she includes adult situations and det...
Elena Weaver is dead, waylaid while on her pre-dawn run, smashed in the face with the ubiquitous blunt object, strangled with the tie from her hood and buried in a leaf pile by the river. Within three days of her murder and because of it, eight more people will be dead, in body or in soul. But fo...
Poor little Charlotte Bowen. She's 10 years old, but her mother, Eve Bowen, Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, is a narcissistic conservative politician who always thinks 'it's all about her.' Charlotte is kidnapped, but despite all of the evidence mommy dearest thinks her one-week ex-f...
OFFICIAL BLURBTo 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 K...
““In England the term “the Ashes” signifies victory in test cricket (cricket played at the national level) against Australia.””The preceding quote is from the book. However, if you, gentle reader, are thinking, “I bet actually the title of this mystery genre novel is a sly double entrende about a...
Eleventh in the Inspector Lynley mystery series based in London at Scotland Yard and revolving around policemen. My Take This is a gawd awful depressing story but an essential read if you prefer to follow your characters chronologically. There is so much in here that you need to know. I think.I h...
I have been a fan of the Thomas Lynley series from the beginning, reading them in order and loving each one. However, this one takes a plot twist that was a mistake, in my opinion. I was, quite honestly horrified and heart broken by what happened. I have continued to read the books after this ...
Tenth in the Inspector Lynley mystery series set at Scotland Yard in London.The StoryThe daughter of an old friend of Thomas' is missing. Well, missing until she's found brutally murdered out on the moors in a henge. Nor is she alone in her death and it's this second victim that provides the clue...
Kurzbeschreibung:Weg aus London, weg von ihrem offenbar unerfüllbaren Wunsch nach einem gemeinsamen Kind und dieser Belastung für ihre Beziehung. Simon St. James, Inspector Lynleys bester Freund, und seine Frau Deborah wollen in dem winzigen Dorf Winslow eigentlich nur zur Ruhe kommen. Doch der P...
Oh my. I'm still catching my breath. I think I stopped breathing about 7 times in the days it took me to finish 'Well-schooled in Murder'. That's about how often I thought the killer was going to be unmasked, only to discover, along with Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Ba...
What Came Before He shot her, by Elizabeth George. A-plus.Borrowed on CD from the public libraryI think this book is the best one Elizabeth George has ever written. The concept for it is intriguing as well. In her last book, “With No One as Witness” we saw the unfolding of the needless and tra...
Ninth in the Inspector Lynley mystery series set in contemporary London.The StoryTommy and Helen have gotten married and are off on their honeymoon while Barbara has been ordered to take time off to heal after her injuries in In the Presence of the Enemy. Lord, taking time off. All that time wit...
Thomas Lynley, at 34 years of age, is a detective inspector with the CID at New Scotland Yard. He is very good at his job and well respected amongst his peers. And, in this book, that is the start of his troubles. For Thomas Lynley is a peer. He is Lord Asherton, the eighth Earl of Asherton, to b...
Technically, this fourth entry in the Inspector Lynley series is a prequel, taking place about a year before the events of the first novel, “A Great Deliverance.” Realistically though, this book is placed exactly where it needs to be in the series. After the bombshell that Deborah Cotter St. Jame...
date, Hayley was more than ready for a diversion. Hayley couldn’t imagine how anything on Whidbey Island might be a surprise to her, but she agreed to the plan and he gave her the date and the time. When Parker arrived to pick her up, she was helping her dad get out of the...
She wanted to figure out something that was going to end the dispute in their family. But what that something was . . . she had no clue. So because she spent the most time of everyone alone with Ralph, she used those chances she had to connect with him. His whispers were l...
Instead, it had to do with the very last thing he would ever have expected to bother him: Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers actually keeping herself in order for two months and counting. Forever had it been his most ardent wish that his longtime colleague would see the light of reason and begin t...
But he didn't need a lot of light to find what he was looking for among the papers in the filing cabinet. He knew where the single document was, and his personal hell comprised the fact that he also knew what the document said. He drew it forth. A crisp manila folder held it like a layer of smoot...
Annie wasn’t there, Jenn’s mom had taken her brothers into Langley to look for shoes at the thrift store, and Jenn’s dad was inside the bait shack, doing some work that involved a lot of banging and even more swearing. With time on her hands, she set up her soccer obstacles and got to work. She w...
Not really. But you know how people sometimes have just had enough. That’s what I’d meant when I said it to him, “I could just kill you,” the two of us sitting in his old Nova in front of a cheap motel on Route 66—meaning it figurative, even if that might seem at odds with me sliding his pistol i...
For an entire generation, the story that follows could not be told. She who effected the vanishing of Langley, Washington’s most famous citizen was still among the living and had the knowledge of exactly what she had done been revealed before this moment, there is little doubt that legions of t...