About this title: New Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers must solve the gristly murder of playwright Joy Sinclair on a lonely estate in the Scottish Highlands. A fractious crew of actors involved in their own private battles traveled to the Westerbrae estate for a sequestered reading, only to become suspects in a ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780553284362ISBN:0553284363
Description: Very Good. 0553284363 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780553284362ISBN:0553284363
Description: Good. 0553284363 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780553284362ISBN:0553284363
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1990-07-01
ISBN-13:9780553284362ISBN:0553284363
Description: Good. Past Owner Smoked. Light to Moderate Shelfwear Overall. Scuffed covers. Taped, Creased Spine. Edgewear & edgestaining. Remainder Marks, No Marks in text. BK pb04s02. read more
"So far: two dysfunctional families, the handsome upper-crust detective, three gutsy women, and young love.
Now that I'm finished: kind of an interesting "desert island" mystery, only in this case the desert island is a snowed-in house in Scotland. Why Inspector Lynley is assigned to cases where he personally knows the suspects is beyond me. Not very professional, but I guess it makes for a better story."
"This is one of her best (I haven't read them all yet, maybe it is the best). The plot and subplots are good, there are nice twists, and the writing is quite good. The relationships between Lynley, Havers, Helen, and St. James are well limned. The one disappointment was the murderer; she could have fleshed him or her more thoroughly in earlier chapters."
"In her book "Writing Away" Elizabeth George lays down one of her basic principles: "Writing is character". I think this book proves that admirably, and perhaps not always to her advantage. We have here a set of characters and George takes us into their inner sanctum, examining their emotions, their motives for behaving as they do, their desires, fears etc. With the team she has built up (the detectives and their friends, collaborators) the result is fascinating. With the characters who make up the intrigue itself, the result is less satisfying, probably because the intrigue itself doesn't satisfy, or didn't satisfy me. And that was the book's main weakness. To be fair, my two points may be a bit harsh. if we could give half points here, I'd give it 2 1/2."
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