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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780553384802 ISBN: 0553384805 Label: Bantam Manufacturer: Bantam Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: May 01, 2007 Publisher: Bantam Release Date: May 01, 2007 Studio: Bantam Editorial Review: Product Description: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain’s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An English Country-House MurderA Scottish estate turned into an elegant country inn, whose first guests are a famous theatrical producer and the stars, writer and director of the new play he is getting ready for the West End: ingredients for a classic English country-house murder mystery, especially when the playwright is found murdered in a locked bedroom. There are several people with immediately obvious motives, and a complex net of relationships among them(the playwright's sister is the lead actor's ex-wife; the producer ... Read More Rating:  - Literature LiteMs. George rarely, if ever, disappoints and this title is no exception. Lynley and Havers are at their contemptuous best while St. James and the ladies Helen and Deborah provide depth and nuance to this classic Brit crime novel. A fine amalgamation of detective story and literature - just what we've come to expect from the George bibliography. Rating: - Repeat readingRereading this book after several years. Still a great book and much better than the TV version. Rating: - MasterfulEG's eye for detail is superb and she deftly weaves a plot of byzantine intricacy against a background of wonderful Scottish scenery and thespian intrigue. So accurate is her narrative that one forgets that it is fiction, and picks up the occasional reference that goes astray - e.g. the Royal Scottish Police helicopter, but that it is truly nit picking. This is a an engaging read that fully entertains and leaves me looking for the next one. Rating: - Just as Good as Her First BookPayment in Blood is my 2nd Elizabeth George book but certainly not my last. Besides being a good mystery story, it is also the continuation of Detective Lynley & Havers personal life. While her first novel, A Great Deliverance, focused on the prickly but determined Barbara Havers, this second novel is all about the charming but no less complex partner, Thomas Lynley. This murder mystery is set in a cold, gray, chilly castle in Scotland where a group of actors and their director are ... Read More |
