This weekend was the launch of On the Slab Pie, book #18 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series! Be sure to pick up your copy. There are also some other new releases you should take a look at. You won’t want to get caught without enough beach reads this week!
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A Banquet of Consequences is book #19 in Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. I have read a few other books in this series and they are always full of interesting characters with complex backstories, and a good murder you can really dig into. Though they are police procedurals, there is a lot of information given about the characters before the murder, similar to an Agatha Christie like Death on the Nile. You don’t really hear a lot from the police detectives to start with. In a lot of police procedurals you only view the crime through the eyes of the investigator, but that is not the way the Inspector Lynley books are written.
I am still missing a point or two of the family’s backstory that I think will throw light on the murder. The reader has been pointed from the start toward one particular suspect, but I expect this is a misdirection and I will soon experience a reversal, showing that it was not her, but someone else in her sphere.
* Language warning for those who don’t want to read f-bombs. Mostly in the first couple of chapters by a character with Coprolalia
His mobile toppled to one side, and he handed it over. It was destroyed.
Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences
“Did you drive over it or something?” Lily asked him.
“I smashed it with a shovel.”
The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter gives her a connection to the unsolved Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime, knowing one mistake could mean the end of her career.
Full of shocks, intensity, and suspense from the first page to the last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under mounting pressure to solve a case both complicated and deeply disturbing.
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