Payment in Blood: An Inspector Lynley Novel
Elizabeth George
An isolated Scottish mansion is the venue for a reading of a controversial new play by a West End theatre company. But on the very first evening, the playwright is savagely murdered, and Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the most testing case of his career. For one of the suspects is Lady Helen Clyde, the woman Lynley loves. And as he attempts to untangle the family scandals, fierce theatrical rivalries and long-buried secrets that beset the case, Lynley struggles to balance the clinical detachment of his job with the intensity of his feelings.
Reviews of Payment in Blood: An Inspector Lynley Novel
A treat – splendidly plotted and beautifully written Colin Dexter George weaves her usual magic, embroiling her Scotland Yard characters in tangles both personal and professional Time Out George explores her characters' dreams and fears with a penetrating grace that makes reading her books a joy Washington Post Book World This is a riveting instalment in a superb series Booklist George is a master Chicago Tribune Dickensian in scope, her scenes pinpoint sharp … and the dynamicx of the characters sensitive and disturbing. Oxford Times
Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France; Well-Schooled in Murder was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI (1990). Her novels have now been adapted for television by the BBC as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as an international bestselling author, Elizabeth George divides her time between California and Kensington, London.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
-
David Robinson Reviews: Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
‘Ross is always lucid, almost reverent, about the whole process of archaeological discovery.’
-
Abdullah’s Bear Needs a Name! by Yasmin Hanif
‘”Why don’t you guess?” said Abba. “You’ll know in your heart when you’ve found the right one.”‘
-
Food, Whisky, Life by Ghillie BaŞan
‘Pastries filled with ground nuts, baked fruit or creamy, semolina mixtures, and bathed in honey or …
-
A Chaos of Light: New Writing Scotland
‘The attic lowed like a crystal haal, last I saa her – / dark-eyed and ready tae furgit me.’
-
‘The pleasures of the unexamined life and all that. Dan had read somewhere that the lower classes – …
-
Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare by Michelle Sloan
‘If you rip these bodies from the place that’s been blessed as their final place of peace, where fam …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Julia Kelly
Julia is a mother, writer and teacher. She has been longlisted for The Mslexia Novel Prize, The Exeter Novel Prize, Penguin WriteNow and the Bath Novel Award. In 2021 she won the Blue Pencil First Novel Award. Having grown up in a house without televis …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Forest Research
Forest Research is Great Britain’s principal organisation for forestry and tree related research and it provides evidence and scientific services to support sustainable forest management. The Agency publishes a wide range of information in support of s …