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Volume 19 of the Inspector Linley series is very good, but not quite as good as an Elizabeth George novel can be in best case.As usual George is addressing a social issue while letting her investigators solve a crime and telling the reader a bit more about the crew we know so well by now.I haven't read a book from the Linley series for quite a wile, but reading this feels to me like meeting good friends you haven't seen in years.Even though you didn't have contact for a long time it feels like c...
almost 600 pages of the world's worst mother/world's worst mother-in-law, Lynley Brooding Over Helen And Realizing He Is Running Out of Time to Produce an Heir, and The Great Barbara Havers Makeover. I only finished it to find out if Barbara managed to avoid being turned into a fashion plate and acquire manners. I wanted to wash my eyeballs with bleach after reading the icky parts.
Terrible, boring, and gross. I can't even believe I finished it. Why does everyone seem to like this book?
3.5 stars In this 19th book in the 'Inspector Lynley' series, the Scotland Yard detective and his team investigate the death of a feminist author. The book can be read as a standalone, but knowing the characters makes it more entertaining.*****Will Goldacre is a troubled young man who's afflicted with a deformed ear and a condition that seems to resemble Tourette's Syndrome - he sometimes vocalizes curse words and inappropriate phrases. After a break-up and attempted reconciliation with his gir
If you want to continue your relationship with Barbara Havers, do yourself a favor and skip to page 567, read it and walk away quickly (take your Converse and run!), then wait another two years. Lynley has apparently been abducted and replaced by a paper doll cutout that resembles very little of the man we came to know. It says it's Lynley, it drives a car like Lynley but it ain't Lynley! Actually all the men (the few there are) in this man hating diatribe seem to have been created from the same...
I used to absolutely love these books and although I was a little disappointed in the last one I pre-ordered this one. Sadly I think that, for me, they have had their day. Tommy Lynley seems like a bit part player in this rather slow and tedious tale and though I have not been gripped as I have in the past and at times tried to think of other things to do rather than read which is very unusual for me. In fairness the plot is clever with a couple of misdirections and one or two of the characters
God, she's good at what she does. It's been ages since a book actually kept me up all night. Of course, I'm having a little trouble getting my eyes to focus this morning...
Swedish review Oanade konsekvenser är den första Thomas Lynley och Barbara Havers boken jag har läst på flera år, men det känns inte alls som om jag har missat något trots att jag åtminstone inte har läst de senaste 10 böckerna om inte fler. Jag måste erkänna att jag var lite tveksam till boken innan jag började. Men så är den över 600 sidor lång och av erfarenhet vet jag att för att lyckats få läsarna att inte tröttna måste berättelsen hela vägen ha ett flyt och tursamt nog hade boken det. D
Readers may be surprised that, in installment #19 of the series, Lynley and Havers are still in their 30s. Why, we began with "The Great Deliverance" in 1988, and if you figure Lynley couldn't have been younger than 25 then, in 2015 he would be 52. Havers couldn't be any younger than 50, unless they allow teens to work as detectives.As usual with George, though there are sexual perversions aplenty, it's the "lovemaking" between ordinary adulterous middle-agers that is most disgusting. There is "...
Well, the good news is that after a slog through the adventures and misadventures (ranging from sad and pathetic to horrifying) of the various members and acquaintances of the most dysfunctional family I've ever encountered in my reading, I did finally come to the part of the book I quite liked. The bad news is it took about 500 pages to get there. The book's fly leaf asks the question whether or not there's a connection between a suicide and an author's death and another attempted murder years
I didn't find this as gripping as The Punishment She Deserves, but George is so skilled at focusing on the humanity of those involved in and affected by crimes. Onwards (or backwards I guess) to book 18!
The only good thing I can say about this story is that Ms. George did create a character that all of us wished were dead. For the rest of the story in my mind was made up of incredibly deficit people. Characters who could not make a decision and move on. There was a certain clique about relationships. Two of the major "families" all had partners outside of marriage. And they could not settle. There was a certain familiar repeating of a love relationship murdered. Those were not the murder that w...
George’s massive, character-rich mysteries are unique in the annals of British mystery writing. George’s conclusion to the nineteenth in this series leaves us as anxious to hear the future for her characters as we ever were in the beginning. She throws in everything her characters encounter in a day, making the book dauntingly long, but as I pointed out in an earlier review, look how much story one gets for the investment of a few quid.Inspector Lynley may indeed be the spine of these novels, bu...
Elizabeth George is such an amazing writer. It's been awhile since I've read one of her inspector Lyndly cases, and this one was so good! George has a special ability to develop characters and plot and to create such vivid personalities that I was able to feel sorry for or to want to strangle with my bare hands one of the characters ( i won't tell you who...)It would have been a 5 stars if not for the long time it took to get to the murder. Almost a quarter into the book. While eventually you ge...
