A Traitor to Memory

Author:   Elizabeth George
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
ISBN:  

9780553582369


Pages:   1024
Publication Date:   27 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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"When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated and tragic life could have wanted her dead? And could her murder have some connection to a twenty-eight-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist who several months earlier suddenly and inexplicably lost the ability to play a single note? For Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, whose own domestic life is about to change radically, these questions are only the first in an investigation that leads him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor. Assigned to the case by his superior, Superintendent Malcolm Webberly, Lynley learns that Webberly's first murder investigation as a DI over twenty years ago involved Eugenie Davies and a sensational criminal trial. Yet what is truly damaging is what Webberly already knows and no doubt wants Lynley to keep concealed. Now the pressure is on Lynley to find Eugenie Davies' killer. For not only is he putting his own career into jeopardy, but he is also attempting to safeguard the careers of his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. Together, they must untangle the dark secrets and darker passions of a family whose history conceals the truth behind a horrific crime. ""From the Hardcover edition."""

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Author:   Elizabeth George
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:   Bantam USA
Dimensions:   Width: 10.80cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780553582369


ISBN 10:   0553582364
Pages:   1024
Publication Date:   27 August 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. ... [S]ome particularly moving moments. -- Publishers Weekly <br> A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives. -- USA Today <br> Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals. -- Kirkus Reviews


This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. ... [S]ome particularly moving moments. -- Publishers Weekly A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives. -- USA Today Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals. -- Kirkus Reviews


This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. ... [S]ome particularly moving moments. -- Publishers Weekly<br><br> A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives. -- USA Today <br><br> Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals. -- Kirkus Reviews


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Elizabeth George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.

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