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I've read all of Elizabeth George's Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers series, and I must say that this is the weakest of the bunch. One of the aspects that I've always enjoyed in this mystery series is the attention that the author paid to the lives of the two main characters. In A Traitor to Memory , tha Leggi tutto

(#11 of the Havers-Lynley series) Wow…This was another masterpiece by George. I have never read another book like the ones George puts out. Amazon’s rating does not do it justice. This author, in my humble opinion, is ingenious. The book is about many things. The main plot is about a family. A famil Leggi tutto

Eleventh in the Inspector Lynley mystery series based in London at Scotland Yard and revolving around policemen. My Take This is a gawd awful depressing story but an essential read if you prefer to follow your characters chronologically. There is so much in here that you need to know. I think. I had a Leggi tutto

2.5, I guess. This was officially my least favorite so far of the Lynley books. Neither Lynley or Havers is in it much at all, the focus is mostly on one character and it seems as though he narrates 3/4's of the very long book. Which is fine, I guess if he had been more interesting, but every time I Leggi tutto

this book was so bad that our book group brought it up at every single meeting thereafter...

I think ‘A Traitor to Memory’ was an interesting book to read. It dissects a dysfunctional family which rotates around two human suns made important by family dynamics, a son and an obsessive father. First is the musical prodigy, Gideon Davies, who is a minor sensation in classical music circles, a Leggi tutto