Playing for the Ashes
$45.21
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2008
Summary
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems in this “compelling and indefinitely engrossing” (People) novel from the renowned Inspector Lynley series.
When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage’s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten—not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective In…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553385496 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553385496 |
| Author: | Elizabeth George |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 584g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Inspector Lynley |
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Critics Review
“Those who haven’t discovered Elizabeth George … should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.”—Us“Compelling … indefinitely engrossing.”—People “Gritty and satisfying!”—The New Yorker “A master of the modern English mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly
About The Author
Elizabeth George
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 Polici re. 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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