Available:*
Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
Searching... Silver Falls Library | MYS GEORGE | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Amity Public Library | MYS GEORGE Thomas Linley # 4 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Jefferson Public Library | MYSTERY GEORGE, E. LYNLEY BOOK 4 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... McMinnville Public Library | George, E. | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Monmouth Public Library | Fic (m) George, E. 1991 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library | GEORGE Inspector Lynley #4 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Newberg Public Library | MYSTERY GEORGE | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Willamina Public Library | MYS GEO | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Woodburn Public Library | George | Searching... Unknown |
Bound With These Titles
On Order
Summary
Summary
Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction--and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can't help taking the investigation personally--because the evidence points to a killer within his own family. From the Paperback edition.
Summary
Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction--and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can't help taking the investigation personally--because the evidence points to a killer within his own family.
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.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
YA-- A beautifully written novel that will hold YAs' attention. The family home of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Eighth Earl of Ashenton, becomes a hotbed of suspicion instead of the scene of a lovely engagement party when a murder in a nearby village brings buried feelings to the surface. For those who demand more of their murder mysteries than a slam-bang whodunit, George provides deeply drawn characters along with page-turning excitement. The principals take readers into their innermost feelings even as they themselves are denying those feelings, and the story's complexities are just as intricate as the characters themselves. Family ties, love connections, friendships, denial, goodness and greed, humility and arrogance, drugs, and even transvestite action all weave their way through the plot and through the murders. Competent readers should have no trouble with the Briticisms or sometimes difficult style. The excellent descriptive writing and fascinating twists make A Suitable Vengeance well worth the extra effort expended.-- Bunni Union, Young Adult Services, Geauga West Library, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
At the heart of George's ( Payment in Blood ) darkly vibrant modern English mystery lie love, requited and not; and injuries of the kind that only intimates--parents, siblings, lovers, close friends--or perhaps one's own treacherous ego can inflict. Thomas Lynley, eighth earl of Asherton and a detective inspector of New Scotland Yard, brings his fiancee Deborah Cotton to Cornwall to meet his widowed mother. Accompanying them are Lynley's best friend, forensic scientist Simon St. James; St. James's sister Sidney; her boyfriend Justin Brooke; Lady Helen Clyde, St. James's partner and former lover; and Deborah's father, St. James's valet. Unexpected events of the weekend include a violent fight between Sidney and Justin, the appearance of Lynley's cocaine-addicted brother, the brutal murder of the village newspaper editor, and Justin's death on the cliffs. Lynley and St. James attempt to trace motives and alibis among guests and villagers while each is deeply enmeshed in personal pain: Lynley's over his estrangement from his mother since his father's death many years before, and St. James's over his unspoken--and, he believes, unspeakable--love for Deborah. The resolution of the accumulating murders involves different kinds of illegal drugs and centers around the activities of a young London woman whose true identity surprises everyone. Even more intricate than George's deftly handled plot, however, are the paths etched by her anguished, memorable characters, as they struggle with the secrets of their hearts. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
An age-old question--does love have a place in the mystery?--is answered at an exquisitely leisurely length in this prequel to A Great Deliverance, Payment in Blood and Well-Schooled in Murder, which first introduced the estimable Eighth Earl of Asherton, a.k.a. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley; his closest friend, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James; and the two women who, in varying ways, loved them both--gentle Deborah, a young photographer; and Lady Helen, a sophisticated socialite-scientist. Here, ""Thommy"" is bringing fiancÉe Deborah to met his mother at the family's Cornwall estates. To round out the engagement party, Simon and Lady Helen join them, as do Thommy's coke-addled brother Peter; Simon's younger sister Sidney and her abusive lover, Justin Brooke; and Deborah's dad, houseman/valet to the handicapped Simon. While the less-than-amicable house-party gets under way (Thommy and his mother haven't spoken in 15 years; the two brothers have long been at odds; Simon is grieving at the thought of Deborah marrying Thommy; Brooke rapes Sidney; and Thommy awkwardly tries to make polite conversation with his mother's long-term lover, Dr. Roderick Trenarrow, a cancer researcher), a supposedly womanizing newsman is viciously murdered. Then Brooke, a biochemist researching the drug Incomet, is killed, and there seem to be links to Peter, Dr. Trenarrow, and the Lynley estate manager. Lynley and Simon gingerly assist the Cornwall police, deftly steering them away from gun-running theories, self-sacrificing fathers, and suicide as possibilities. Justice is finally served--but not before a plenitude of those emotional relationships that carve notches on the heart are fully, wrenchingly explored. The prose is perhaps a shade too overwrought, but, still, Anglophiles--along with George's many fans--will want to queue up for this one. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.