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What's more, the Inspector's partner Barbara Havers has been suspended and is facing criminal charges of assault and attempted murder. Was Havers really saving a drowning child or was she disobeying orders? Why then did she fire a rifle at the Detective Chief Inspector and how could Lynley ethically justify it? As he grapples with the ramifications of his partner's radical insubordination, the case in Derbyshire grows in daunting complexity.
Once again, Elizabeth George delivers an intricately woven plot which efficiently navigates the reader through the book's 566 pages. Along the way, readers will be introduced to a delightful cast of supporting characters, from the dowdy Phoebe who finds the first gory cadaver to the stately Andy Maiden: "His face was drawn with exhaustion, and his growth of peppery whiskers fanned out from his moustache and shadowed his cheeks". And, of course, fans will get an eyeful of George's trademark; her vivid descriptions of death: "At her feet, a young man lay curled like a foetus, dressed head-to-toe in nothing but black, with that same colour puckering burnt flesh from eye to jaw on one side of his face". --Rebekah Warren --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'She is a great storyteller. The totality is a big fat, satisfying book.' (Frances Fyfield, Sunday Express )
'A compelling mystery,intricately plotted, with multiple twists and a satisfyingly devious finale. George is brilliant at juggling so many motives and so many suspects, keeping the reader enthralled, and coming up with such a clever solution.' (Marcel Berlins, The Times )
'George's nine best-selling novels of psychological suspense are burnished with the internationalism that is a result of dividing her time between California and London' (The Times )
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A return to form,
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This review is from: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Hardcover)
In Pusuit of The proper sinner represents return to form for George, although she runs the risk at this point of being over fond of her hero, just as Sayers was of Peter Wimsey. Lynley spends rather too much of his time contemplating his navel rather than contemplating the crime, but the novel is good nonetheless; her last book missed his quirky Englishness (as we all have butlers who love musicals and a panchent for partners who love us not in the begnning but fall headlong in the end) and great suits. Lynley is a little overindulged but the book has some real strengths.Firstly it has a cracking plot and is perhaps the toughest puzzle she has written. Secondly it has more three dimensional women of the kind George excels at. Laslty it is familiar without being irritating as deception on his mind was. I hope that George takes Lynley further, as leaving him out of her last novel and relying on the charicatured and doomed Havers was a mistake. A new partner who isnt a working class woman or a black sterotypical gangster would be of benefit now.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping Initiation.......,
By A Customer
This review is from: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Inspector Lynley Mysteries 10) (Paperback)
into Elizabeth George. I had been encouraged to read her books previously, but after TVs demolition of Inspector Linley and Co (How come in the books he has blonde hair?)I was apprehensive. What a mistake! I could not put this down, yes it is long, but every sentence keeps you gripped. I had no idea who the killer was until the moment you are supposed to find out and, other than Robert Goddard, so many authers fail to keep the killers id anonymous. I wanted to scream at Barbara Havers to toe the line, but I'm glad she had the courage of her convictions! I can't wait for the next one. Highly recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good plot; shame about the writing.,
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This review is from: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Hardcover)
I have ploughed through all the Lynley titles, as the plots are quite ingenious, but the characterisations of the main protagonists are utterly unbelievable! I also hoped that Ms George's tin ear for the English vernacular would improve, alas, it has not. The books read as though they have been translated from a foreign language by someone who, equally, does not have English as their first language. Who refers to people being "chopped"? Getting the chop, yes, but that means sacked, terminated etc. Even little things such as character's names are incongruously inappropriate. A good editor should surely pick up these inconsistencies. Sadly, I have found it impossible to concentrate on the (admittedly) convoluted plotting as a result.
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