A Suitable Vengeance: 4 (Inspector Lynley) - Softcover

George, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553384821 ISBN 13: 9780553384826

Publisher: Bantam, 2007

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry." Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley--and in their own lives as well. "From the Paperback edition."

Product Description:

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.

Review:

"George is a master...an outstanding practitioner of the modern English mystery."--Chicago Tribune "Ms. George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists."--The New York Times"Ms. George can do it all, with style to spare."--The Wall Street Journal"A master of the modern English mystery."--Entertainment Weekly

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0553384821
• ISBN 13: 9780553384826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464