Product Description

Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen’s College, Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and targets to achieve. Until someone, lying in wait on the bank of the River Cam, where Elena went running every morning, bludgeoned the young woman to death. Called into the rarefied world of academia, Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers find a tangled skein of love, obsession and desire – a maelstrom of emotion that has claimed Elena Weaver’s life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33929 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Review
'Ingenious; very well and subtly done' -- Sunday Times 'This excellent thriller is fast paced and believable with strong, well-rounded characters and an absorbing background' -- Today 'Cunningly deceptive' -- Scotsman

Review
'Ingenious; very well and subtly done' (Sunday Times )

'This excellent thriller is fast paced and believable with strong, well-rounded characters and an absorbing background' (Today )

'Cunningly deceptive' (Scotsman )

Sunday Times
'Ingenious; very well and subtly done'

Customer Reviews

memorable!
Young, beautiful, successful at school, daddy's girl gets brutally murdered.Her background, her life at the public school, her relationships with friends and family gets dug into by Lynley and Havers. One small detail after another, they dig out the real story, the real person behind all the superlatives and find a girl far different from her father's ideals.
What was thought to be an impersonal random slaying turns into
something intricately more complicated, as they find more and more persons with motives. She really wasn't liked at all.

One of George's best, it kept me guessing right up to the end.
Lynley and, especially, Havers are brilliantly depicted.

Kept me guessing right up until the end
This is the first Elizabeth George book I've read and I was very impressed. The characters were all vivid and the plot was interesting and kept me guessing all the way through.

Far superior to anything else I've read by Ms George
This was the first Elizabeth George book I read and I loved it. Well written, pacy, plenty of suspects and interesting examinations of why people behave to each other as they do. Not much of that fanciful rubbish about the English aristocracy that mars the other books in the series I've since read either - it took me a while to realise that Lynley is meant to be an Earl from this one (an Earl? in the police force? yeah, right...). Buy this one but only borrow the others....