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When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. Barbara's clever manipulation of the worst of London's tabloids forces New Scotland Yard to become involved. But rather than Barbara herself, her superior officer DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone - anyone - for the crime.
Author Notes
Elizabeth George was born on February 26, 1949, in Warren, Ohio. She received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of California in Riverside and a master's degree in counseling/psychology from California State University at Fullerton. She taught English in high school for about thirteen years before leaving to become a full-time writer. She is the New York Times and internationally best selling author of twenty British crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his unconventional partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Her novel, A Great Deliverance, won the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, and France's Le Grand Prix de Literature Policiere in 1989. Her crime novels have been translated into 30 languages and featured on television by the BBC. She is also the author of a young adult series set on the island where she lives in the state of Washington. Her title's include Edge of Light, The Edge of the Shadows, The Edge of the Water, I, Richard, and The Punishment She Deserves.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This riveting tale of love, passion, and betrayal, the 18th Inspector Lynley novel from bestseller George (after 2012's Believing the Lie), spotlights Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers. Taymullah Azhar, a science professor who's a friend and neighbor of Havers in North London, is devastated to come home one day and discover that his nine-year-old daughter, Hadiyyah, and most of her possessions are gone. Hadiyyah's mother, Angelina Upman, to whom Azhar was never married, has decamped to Italy with the girl. A grateful Azhar accepts Havers's offer to act as a private detective, though her superiors resist her request for a leave of absence. Months later, when kidnappers take Hadiyyah from Angelina in an Italian marketplace, Lynley travels to Lucca, Tuscany, to look into the matter. Havers later goes AWOL to Lucca, where she seizes the initiative in the case and risks her career to persuade Scotland Yard to get involved. Fully realized Italian characters, from a lover whose face cannot hide his emotions to the charming Chief Insp. Salvatore Lo Bianco, add to the rich ensemble cast. Series fans will enjoy following Lynley and Havers on their first investigation outside the U.K., while newcomers will be just as enthralled. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Inspector Lynley returns for a bout of trans-European hijinks--his first adventure outside Old Blighty. Though an American herself, it's taken George time to build a domestic audience for her long-running Lynley series, adapted for British television and then repatriated as an occasional Masterpiece Mystery offering. George's hero is a nod to Dorothy Sayers, though Lynley, a discomfited lord working among the peasants of Scotland Yard, lacks most of Peter Wimsey's affectations. For the first time in many volumes, George again pairs Lynley with tough-talking northerner Barbara Havers, who's not always scrupulous about the letter of the law; as she tells one investigator, "I don't care if you break laws or not....Spy on anyone you need to spy on. Go through their rubbish. Hack into their mobiles and their Internet accounts. Take over their email." Rupert Murdoch would be proud, but Havers has a fraught mission: The daughter of a friend has been kidnapped in Italy, where her mother, estranged from that friend, has taken the child. Said friend, a Pakistani microbiologist, may not be entirely innocent--and in all events, it seems, shadowy parties want daughter and mother. Though the book is too long by a couple of hundred pages, George is a master of the wily plot and the timely tossed out red herring. She's also not bad at the icky but effective detail: "Maggots still writhed in the man's eyes, nose, and mouth; beetles had been feasting on his skin; mites and millipedes scurried into the open neck of his linen shirt." Yet the book goes on long enough that some of the dramatic force is blunted; it could have benefited from some economizing. Too, George falls victim to the local-color gambit, insisting that ordinary terms be put into the other language: A cellphone is a cellphone is a cellphone, so calling it a telefonino to emphasize the fact that we're in Italy is more than a touch precious. George's fans will be glad to see Havers back in action, even though, as ever, she's quick to land in trouble. And as for Lynley--well, he's as cool as ever, in more than one sense of the word.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
As her devoted readers know, George's D.I. Lynley procedurals are more about characters than crime. This entry is certainly no different, but, unlike the most recent books, which center on a distraught Lynley, recovering from his wife's murder, the focus is on Lynley's partner (and polar opposite), D.S. Barbara Havers. It begins when Taymullah Azhar, Barbara's neighbor, asks for help in finding his beloved daughter, Hadiyyah, with whom his wife has absconded. So begins a sprawling investigation that careens from England to Italy and back again, as cops in both countries investigate child abduction and murder, ending with Azhar looking very like a killer. Through it all, volatile, unkempt, vulnerable Barbara is so invested in Azhar that she loses sight of everything and everyone else. Unfortunately, her stubborn loyalty does not come across as entirely rational this time, but readers who've grown attached to the obstinate, outspoken cop over the course of the series will surely forgive her for being blinded by affection. The tale is both overlong and occasionally overwrought, but series fans will not be inclined to put it down unfinished. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Not among the best in George's long-running and consistently popular series, but still certain to draw many requests among public-library readers.--Zvirin, Stephanie Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
The latest entry in George's Inspector Lynley series (after Believing the Lie) takes listeners to Italy when D.S. Barbara Havers's good friend Taymullah Azahar discovers that his girlfriend has disappeared with their daughter, Hadiyyah. Barbara involves herself in the search, hiring a private detective, then calling in Scotland Yard. Inspector Thomas Lynley is dispatched to Italy, where the situation accelerates when the child is apparently abducted. Then Barbara goes rogue, traveling to Lucca to aid Azahar. The Italian characters, especially Chief Inspector Salvatore Lo Bianco, add wit and depth as the complex novel unfolds. Series narrator Davina Porter adeptly changes voices, but the story is marathon in length and will perhaps overwhelm all but the most devoted fans. -VERDICT Only for those dedicated to not missing a single entry in the Inspector Lynley series. ["This is a must for fans of this series. The twists and turns are vintage George and do not disappoint," read the starred review of the Dutton hc, LJ 8/13.]-Sandra C. Clariday, Tennessee Wesleyan Coll., -Athens (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.