Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
When journalist Mick Cambrey is found dead, castrated, local opinion is that he got what was coming to him. Inspector Lynley of Scotland Yard investigates the murder in his hometown Howenstow where he knows everybody from his childhood. As the investigation proceeds another murder occurs.A Suitable Vengance is the fourth book by Elizabeth George about Inspector Lynley and I listened to an audio edition of it published by Bantam Audio Publishing of 1991. I jumped right into A Suitable Vengance an...
When you're reading a whodunnit and the crime doesn't appear until after page 100, you should take the hint that maybe it isn't the right book for you.I've read a few other Elizabeth George books and knew that Lynley was a bit of a simp and his friend St. James wasn't really much better, but this book exaggerated those annoying qualities to such a degree that portions were nearly unreadable. The mystery, once it got going, was adequate. Unfortunately the Harlequin-style writing buried the fun un...
I had been putting this one off over and over since I’d heard it was a sort of prequel to the series and didn’t have Havers as much of a character. But it turned out to be better than I was afraid it would be. The love triangle was boring beyond, but it was nice to be able to get to know these characters better. The mystery itself wasn’t thrilling, but Elizabeth George is so readable. In short, this was a solid book.
I do like Elizabeth George's style, and her way with a mystery, but this novel epitomizes everything in her Lynley series I find the most irritating. This particular book is set before the first in the series, A Great Deliverance. Which means it's Lynley without Havers. Havers only has a very brief appearance here, more a cameo, late in the book, two appearances less than a page each and a couple of mentions. That leaves us with Thomas Lynley, Lord Asherton, up to his family manor Howenstow in C...
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. James laid on her husband, Simon, at the end of the previous book, Elizabeth George takes us back just far enough to get a real understanding of the original dynamics that led every character to that last po...
Confusion sets in quickly as nowhere on the book cover, or any dates in the text indicate that this the fourth book in the 'Inspector Lynley' series, is set way back before the first book 'A Great Deliverance'. Having figured that out despair quickly set in.The triangle of Lynley, St James and Deborah is so tedious and downright uninteresting, it seems the height of desperation to spend almost 300 pages waffling on and on about them. Previous books have of course referred to their tangled pasts,...
This was a decent murder mystery, but mostly it's a soap opera starring Lynley and his friends and family, set on his family estate in Cornwall. This book is a prequel, covering events that occurred several years before the first book in this series, so you already know how all of the drama is going to be resolved.Havers only appears briefly, in a couple of unflattering scenes.I find that I like Lady Helen more and more, and that I rather dislike Deborah. I can't say there was anything extraordi...
A Suitable Vengeance is the fourth book in Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series, but chronologically it occurs years before the first three. In it we see the main characters much younger and gain far more insight into the tangled relationships of Lynley, Deborah, and St. James. Given how much those relationships make me want to shake each one of the players hard, this was my least favorite so far. The mystery itself was interesting, but bizarre in a way that did not redeem the book. I did
If the reader could get past the guilt complexes of the main characters, there is probably a good mystery here.....but 3/4 of the narrative deals with the guilt of unrequited love, guilt over minor incidents from the past, guilt over adultery, guilt over physical infirmities and just plain guilt over anything you choose. It made me feel guilty reading about it.This is a prequel to the DI Thomas Linley/Simon St. James series that attempts to explain the relationships of the main characters. There...
AROUND THE WORLD OF CRIME/MYSTERY1991So, ahem, maybe quinine isn't such a great cure-all? If you read the paperback version (Bantam Trade 2007) skip the author's "Acknowledgements" printed up front, before the novel begins. It contains the solution to a couple of the book's subplots. AND, what SHOULD have been up front (that this is a prequel to George's first Lynley novel) isn't. But these issues are rather minor.CAST - 1 star: In the first 3 volumes, it's clear Detective Havers doesn't like Ly...
Fourth (publication-wise) in the Inspector Lynley mystery series set in modern-day London, A Suitable Vengeance is so incredibly well titled as vengeance abounds throughout the story. Tommy’s anger with his mother, Deb’s anger with Simon, Peter’s anger with Tommy, Justin and Mick’s actions, Sidney’s emotions, Mark’s activities…it’s endless.The Chronology of the SeriesA Suitable Vengeance is, chronologically, first in the series as it tells the tale of Deborah’s return from school in America with...
Seriously you guys. I hard shrugged this book throughout. Why George decided to throw out a book that shows events that took place before the first book in the series baffles me. Also there's just a look at Havers and that's it. I cannot read a whole book following Lynley and St. James again. My head was done in. Also the casual way that everyone reacted when a character was almost raped just made my jaw drop. Also the plot line following who murdered several people and why was beyond convoluted...
In Elizabeth George's A Suitable Vengeance, the 4th installment in the Inspector Lynley Mystery series, this novel deals with hard-core topics that went straight to the jugular. It all started when Lynley announced his engagement to Deborah Cotter and brought her home. At the time of the merry celebration, his brother Peter storms into the festivities with his girlfriend. He haven't seen him in years. Meanwhile, Nancy Chambrey discovers her husband Mick's dead body in his office and calls for he...