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British crime writer George's seventh book featuring detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list.
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George is a gifted writer who spins rich, colorful, mesmerizing, multifaceted stories that combine an absorbing mystery with provocative insights into her characters' innermost thoughts and emotions. Her latest story once again features Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Chalk and cheese when it comes to background, philosophy, style, and personality, Lynley and Havers easily forget their differences when a tough homicide needs solving--take, for example, the asphyxiation death of renowned, all-England cricket player Kenneth Fleming. The duo's inquiries turn up some disturbing facts about the cricket star. Not only was his personal life a shambles, but he had a very odd relationship with a former teacher. The case is more byzantine than any Lynley and Havers have encountered in their years as a crack homicide team, and even when they've identified Fleming's killer, the file isn't really closed. As usual, there's more to think about in George's story than simply whodunit. Readers will be astounded by the ease with which she weaves complex relationships and provocative moral, emotional, and ethical questions into the compelling plot. Another tour de force from one of today's best storytellers. Emily Melton This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Returning Again and Again, Avril 10 2004
This review is from: Playing for the Ashes (Mass Market Paperback)
Playinng for the Ashes is the best mystery I have ever read. The skill of the narrative is amazing. I am a student of Henry James and know he himself would be astounded at the complex weaving of character and situation and the evolution of a self-centered, self-destructive young woman into a caring and loving individual. Chris Farady has to be one of the great characters of the English novel. George has a way of putting true goodness on the page that is utterly credible and, most of all, ever human. I love this book and turn to it over and over. I feel the characters are real people who influence the ways I think and treat others. I hope Elizabeth George brings these characters back to us, as she does her major ones.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Commendable, but..., Fév 26 2004
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This review is from: Playing for the Ashes (Mass Market Paperback)
Numerous reviews have detailed the virtues of this work. I especially agree with the praise for George's integration of multiple plot lines and her employment of a "diary" element in the voice of Olivia.

I do have some reservations about Olivia, however. Though we may be persuaded to grant her a fair amount of native intelligence, it is hard to think she would have been a devoted student. So her level of articulateness frequently seems implausible.

The "romance" of Lynley and Lady Helen ranges from cloying to tedious. Helen describes herself as "utterly useless," and proceeds to do nothing to dispel this impression. (Elsewhere in the series she is depicted more favorably.) The best Lynley can muster is the assurance that she "distracts" him from the demands of his occupation. Some compliment from an ardent lover! On the other hand, Havers is surely George's most inspired character creation and does much to leaven the proceedings.

Despite its flaws, Playing For the Ashes is absorbing and mostly quite well written.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Excruciatingly dragged out, Janv. 1 2004
Par Barbara L. Pinzka "Book Friend" (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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No plot twist goes unexexamined, and no sub-plot is too small, in this tedious, over-blown mystery. It takes true dedication to pull through.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Maybe the Best Thus Far?
Having read the previous Lynley/Havers mysteries by Elizabeth George, I have come to expect nothing but the best from her and this book did not disappoint. Read more
Publié le Mars 25 2003 par Louis M. Perdue

5.0étoiles sur 5 Magestic work of Art,
I have read all the Elizabeth George mysteries starting with A Great Deliverance that I happened to buy one night at a book store. Read more
Publié le Nov. 9 2002 par Avid Reader

5.0étoiles sur 5 Absorbing, Intense, Live in the narrator's shoes!
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~ - ~ One of Elizabeth George's strengths as a mystery writer is her ability to create complex intriguing characters, who can alternate between... Read more
Publié le Oct. 9 2002 par lynkfri13

4.0étoiles sur 5 A lot in one book!
This book covers a tremendous amount of ground, and it is sometimes unclear how all the pieces fit together. Read more
Publié le Sep 10 2002 par Martha E. Nelson

5.0étoiles sur 5 The best one yet
This, basically, normal George. Exactly what we have come to expect from a practioner of some really beautiful english language. Read more
Publié le Avril 26 2002 par RachelWalker

3.0étoiles sur 5 Stretching the story
I found this book to be about twice as long as should have been. In some places the dialogue just went on and on and on. Read more
Publié le Mars 14 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 Great Like All the Books in This Series
I am very glad that I found Elizabeth George. I really love her books. Lynley and Havers are such a great team. They are so opposite that they complement each other. Read more
Publié le Mars 9 2002 par S. Schwartz

1.0étoiles sur 5 Terrible - over long
I read the first 300 pages then gave up completely frustrated at the amount of time I had wasted. I skipped to the last few chapters to find out "who dunit" and even... Read more
Publié le Déc 9 2001

4.0étoiles sur 5 An excellent mystery
I have read every book from Elizabeth George and this is one of my favorites. It is well written and I enjoyed the development of the relationship between Lynley and Havers. Read more
Publié le Juil 18 2001 par Laura M. Gorski

5.0étoiles sur 5 I still think about these characters
This book, unlike many in the series, focuses more on the figures in the crime than the police investigating the crime. Read more
Publié le Juil 17 2001 par nickne

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