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An Inspector Lynley Novel, Book 21

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By: Elizabeth George
Narrated by: Vivienne Rochester
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 Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.

A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural hematoma is the result of a blow to her head. DI Thomas Lynley, DS Barbara Havers and DS Winston Nkata are called in to investigate a case that touches upon not only the work and the life of the murdered detective but also upon a controversial cultural tradition that damages and often destroys the future of everyone it involves.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2022 Susan Elizabeth George Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Suspense Detective

Critic Reviews

Superlative . . . This is a memorable addition to [the Inspector Lynley] series
"Abso-bloody-lutely" good! That would be DS Barbara Havers' verdict on this one. . . . An unsettling and thoroughly involving narrative
A skillfully spun yarn of murder and mayhem
A hugely complex and entertaining novel
It feels like meeting old friends and that you're almost solving the crime together
A superbly written, complex but challenging read
A well-plotted, fast-paced mystery
Expert pacing, plotting and the creation of psychologically convincing characters...make this well worth reading. Elizabeth George has been the recipient of a very number of prestigious awards for her writing...this new work, which engages with much darkness but finds some hope, might well gain her more
What George does so well is to create full portraits of those affected by her chosen theme
All stars
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Bought as a Lynley mystery but I got about three chapters in and I think he’d appeared once. Maybe everything comes together eventually but it’s not gripping enough at the beginning for me to persevere till it does. Shame. I was looking forward to this one.

Misleading

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I was eagerly awaiting the next book in the remarkable Lynley series, but was extremely disappointed with it. Although I stuck with it to the end, the story was slow moving and the whole needed a really, really good edit. A plethora of side issues encompassing too much detail detracted from the story. In some respects it was a brave attempt at highlighting an issue which often gets swept under the carpet of political correctness. But I’m not sure that the issue was dealt with properly. The actual production was uneven - some technical difficulties- and it may have been better to have had two narrators - one to do the Nigerian voices - which were excellently performed- and another to perform the plummy male voices of Lynley, Simon etc. which were poorly performed.

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Another great story from Elizabeth George but I really didn’t like the narrator. Her characters voices weren’t always great - women often sounded like a whining child, Lynley’s voice was all wrong and some of the African voices were also off. In addition, there were some “phone conversations” where one side was “missing” - just patches of silence. This happened in a particularly important part in Chapter 22.

Great story but didn’t like the narrator

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As others have commented there is missing audio - especially in the last chapter - which makes the last chapter hard to comprehend, especially after 16+ hours of listening. Very disappointed in this long and disjointed story. I’ve read every Lynley and Havers book but found this one extremely disappointing. I cannot recommend it.

Disappointed with latest Inspector Linley book

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Story was good but it was way too long and the voice was awful most of the time I thought all of them were in Nigeria couldn’t tell who was who and Inspector Lyndley was so off it was horrendous

Too long narration terrible

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