This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 16 - Couverture souple

George, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444711199 ISBN 13 : 9781444711196

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2011

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer (Sunday Express)

The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about (Sun)

Terrific as always - and how great to have Lynley back on the force (Time Out)

This is crime writing at its finest (Saga)

An intelligent book, clipped and precise, every word chosen with care . . . a cool, clever book that needs concentration and a sharp brain to unravel . . . Along the way to solving the crime we meet some finely drawn characters who emerge as real people with faults and frailties. Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer. Like fine wine, her words need to be savoured . . . Lynley is a policeman with a gentle touch and it is good to have him back on such brilliant form. (Sunday Express)

The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about. (Sun)

Terrific as always - and how great to have Lynley back on the force. (Time Out)

Hurrah, another Inspector Lynley . . . This is crime writing at its finest. George's books are long, solid and wonderfully crafted; she is a modern Dorothy L Sayers. (Saga)

A spellbinding tale of mystery and murder (Books Monthly)

Quatrième de couverture :

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George is back with a spellbinding tale of mystery and murder featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley.

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn't trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, whose management style seems to rub everyone the wrong way. In fact, Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer's hard-as-nails exterior to a hidden—and possibly attractive—vulnerability.

While Lynley works in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest. There they discover a beautiful and strange place where animals roam free, the long-lost art of thatching is very much alive, and outsiders are not entirely welcome. What they don't know is that more than one dark secret lurks among the trees, and that their investigation will lead them to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

A multilayered jigsaw puzzle of a story skillfully structured to keep readers guessing until the very end, This Body of Death is a magnificent achievement from a writer at the peak of her powers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444711199
• ISBN 13: 9781444711196
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 736