A Suitable Vengeance - (Inspector Lynley) by Elizabeth George (Paperback)

About the Book

Award-winning author George gives readers 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.

Book Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley series, hailed as "queen of the mystery genre" (Entertainment Weekly), brings us back to one of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley's earliest--and most personal--investigations.

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"George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists."--The New York Times

Thomas 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 Simon Allcourt-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 Quotes

"Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published."--Entertainment Weekly

"George goes to the head of the genre, with class."--People

"P. D. James has a polished literary eloquence all her own, but George provides the same kind of sumptuous, all-out reading experience."--Los Angeles Times

"Even more intricate than George's deftly handled plot . . . are the paths etched by her anguished, memorable characters, as they struggle with the secrets of their hearts."--Publishers Weekly

"The real pleasure and richness in this book come from the lush, detailed writing about unusual lives and relationships charged with complexity."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A Suitable Vengeance is not only believable and unpredictable but offers beautifully written prose."--Pittsburgh Press

"Readers will come away well satisfied."--New York Daily News

"A Suitable Vengeance is one of those books that readers will race through to find out what's happening . . . then will return to again, and maybe again, just for the sheer pleasure of it."--Toledo Blade

About the Author

Elizabeth George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.