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A Place of Hiding |
'Queen of the mystery genre' says the blurb. Well, if for a mystery you want an absurdly unlikely plot, unreal characters (a gardener with a History of Art degree?!), a clutter of irrelevant side plots and repeated guided tours of the island of Guernsey, you've got it. I believe George is appreciated for her Lynley novels so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, but this book simply irritated me. That's my crabby, locked-down opinion.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 96 Spring 2020) |
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A Traitor to Memory |
In my view this author's best so far and a real blockbuster. As usual she introduces a wide variety of characters, including an infant prodigy violinist suffering from a mental blockage and undergoing psychoanalysis. Sub-plots are cleverly woven together in a setting of London today. This is a gripping whodunnit with many twists and much suspense.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 12 January 2002) |
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In the Presence of the Enemy |
This is one of the last in George's series woven around the aristocratic policeman, Inspector Thomas Lynley, and his family and friends. Although purported to be a psychological thriller, it is difficult to put it into any strict category. In this superior and rewarding 'crime' read George addresses the all too current issue of child kidnapping, the various motivating forces which lead to it and the legal and social machinery which deal with it
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 38 February 2007) |
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In the Presence of the Enemy |
A closely-packed thriller, by a Californian author but nevertheless convincingly set in London and the West Country. The plot weaves around the kidnapping of the daughter of a single-parent Home Office minister and its consequences for others including the father, editor-in-chief of a London tabloid.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 3 May 2000) |
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Playing for the Ashes |
This is an amazingly rich and sophisticated psychological thriller, and as usual with George, much more than that, a tragic 'document humain' portraying all too human personalities and all too familiar issues in the human condition, intricately woven and brought to a logically satisfying, if most surprising, denouement. George is never judgemental but invariably gives her characters the benefit of the doubt, and then sits back and lets them ruin themselves. Dense and rewarding read.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 37 December 2006) |
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What Came Before He Shot Her |
After the superb Inspector Lynley series, those who have waited impatiently for the next EG might be put off by the unprepossessing title, not even good English. It is of course an author's - laudable - prerogative to engage in a complete 'turn-around': underprivileged, mixed-race social outcasts instead of wealthy detective-aristocrats, but in my view this is forced, unpleasant, disappointing and probably unintelligible to people new to her work. Would love to read other opinions.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 38 February 2007) |
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With No One as Witness |
This latest in the Lynley series deals with the trials and tribulations of his romance with Lady Helen Clyde, and with a complicated crime story and analysis of all the issues involved in police work. George is one of the few writers who manage to develop and grow with every book, and this could be considered her very best to date. The promised sequel is a compulsive must for all who read this book
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 38 February 2007) |
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With No One As Witness |
Inspector Lynley, aka Lord Asherton, and his Scotland Yard Team are called in to track down a serial killer. The victims are mostly young men who have fallen foul of the law. The setting is London and its problem areas. The cast is large and the story long. Though at times confusing, it hooked me and made good holiday reading.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 31 September 2005) |
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