Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09253-0
The title of this layered, intricate mystery could refer to the husband and father rarely included in paintings of the Madonna and Child or to an infant victim of crib death 15 years before the grim winter of the story's setting. Both possibilities...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08118-3
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of New Scotland Yard investigates murder at Cambridge University as he continues his suit for the love of Lady Helen in George's ( A Suitable Vengeance ) latest well-crafted mystery. The high-born Lynley and his...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07407-9
At the heart of George's ( Payment in Blood ) darkly vibrant modern English mystery lie love, requited and not; and injuries of the kind that only intimates--parents, siblings, lovers, close friends--or perhaps one's own treacherous ego can inflict.
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05701-0
Placing her own stamp on the traditions of Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James, George ( A Great Deliverance ) supports her vividly characterized story of murder and espionage with elements of theatrical life, British class-consciousness and love gone...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05244-2
In her debut novel, George too often plays to the gallery with characterizations broad enough to border on caricature. The legendharking back to violent events in Cromwell's timethat surrounds local Keldale Abbey pales in comparison to a modern-day...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-553-57608-5
An MP's young daughter is abducted in a bestselling mystery that PW predicted will ""live with the reader long after the last page is turned."" (June)
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (704p) ISBN 978-0-553-57251-3
British crime writer George's seventh book featuring detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Sept.)
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-553-56604-8
In George's deftly plotted, highly atmospheric bestseller, forensic analyst Simon St. James investigates the death of an English vicar. (June)
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-28436-2
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is sent to Scotland to solve the death of playwright Joy Sinclair in what PW termed a ``vividly characterized story of murder and espionage with elements of theatrical life, British class...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . Bantam $26.95 (736p) ISBN 978-0-553-80127-9
Classical music, cybersex and vehicular homicide figure prominently in this sprawling epic, the latest in the bestselling Thomas Lynley series that has won George an enviable following on both sides of the Atlantic. This can only add to her growing...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $25.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-553-10235-2
Selfish children grow up to betray their parents in bestselling author George's (Deception on His Mind) latest suspense novel, which opens with David King-Ryder, a renowned Andrew Lloyd Webber-like British musical writer/producer, committing suicide
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-553-10234-5
It's a little too long, but this rich, engrossing novel portrays a contemporary England that's culturally complex and simmering with tension. The star is moody police sergeant Barbara Havers, who's on leave from New Scotland Yard to recuperate from...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09265-3
After seven outings (the last was Playing for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have formed a comfortable working relationship, which George plays to perfection here....
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Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09262-2
With a British cricket term as its title, the seventh crime novel (after Missing Joseph ) featuring English Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers probes the proximity of love and hate. After cricket star Kenneth...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . Harper $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-135033-7
George's all-original anthology showcases 18 stories by established women mystery writers and five by relative unknowns. While not every entry is a winner, the wide variety of styles and settings will please most mystery fans. Especially strong
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . Harper $27.95 (626p) ISBN 978-0-06-116087-5
At the start of bestseller George’s stellar new suspense novel, the grieving Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard detective who left the force after the murder of his pregnant wife, Helen, in With No One as Witness
(2005), is filling his days with...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-054562-8
Bestseller George (With No One as Witness
) departs from the usual investigative nuts and bolts of her Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers mystery thrillers with this searing examination of the lives of one horribly dysfunctional family and their...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-06-054560-4
Acting Supt. Thomas Lynley and Det. Constable Barbara Havers face their most challenging and perilous case yet—the linked murders of four youths, three of black or mixed parentage—in bestseller George's absorbing 13th British police...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-056042-3
Here's a useful book for the novice writer battling the fears and insecurities that attend when she contemplates her first novel. Highly successful as the writer of a dozen novels of suspense (A Place of Hiding
, etc.) and a teacher with...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . Bantam $26.95 (514p) ISBN 978-0-553-80130-9
Fans disappointed by George's atypical story collection, I, Richard
(2002), will be relieved to find the bestselling transatlantic author back at the top of her form. This exquisitely plotted mystery bursts with well-developed characters,...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author . Bantam $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-80258-0
In her first story collection, eminent British author George (A Traitor to Memory) presents five nimbly written and gripping tales, each with a stunning conclusion. "Exposure" concerns declining sexual prowess, as gossipy architecture...
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Elizabeth A. George, Author, Charles Keating, Performed by HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-116120-9
George's novels about Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley invariably have a long wind up before the action begins, so a narrator with the right tempo is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, Charles Keating lets the first few disks develop as quietly as...
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Elizabeth George, read by John Lee , Harper Audio, unabridged, 21 CDs, 26 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-0-06-116121-6
British stage actor John Lee proves an excellent match for George's long and very convoluted new crime novel. A richly detailed murder mystery with more subplots than a soap opera, the story follows a trio of New Scotland Yarders—series favorites...
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