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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This riveting tale of love, passion, and betrayal, the 18th Inspector Lynley novel from bestseller George (after 2012&'s Believing the Lie), spotlights Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers. Taymullah Azhar, a science professor who&'s a friend and neighbor of Havers in North London, is devastated to come home one day and discover that his nine-year-old daughter, Hadiyyah, and most of her possessions are gone. Hadiyyah&'s mother, Angelina Upman, to whom Azhar was never married, has decamped to Italy with the girl. A grateful Azhar accepts Havers&'s offer to act as a private detective, though her superiors resist her request for a leave of absence. Months later, when kidnappers take Hadiyyah from Angelina in an Italian marketplace, Lynley travels to Lucca, Tuscany, to look into the matter. Havers later goes AWOL to Lucca, where she seizes the initiative in the case and risks her career to persuade Scotland Yard to get involved. Fully realized Italian characters, from a lover whose face cannot hide his emotions to the charming Chief Insp. Salvatore Lo Bianco, add to the rich ensemble cast. Series fans will enjoy following Lynley and Havers on their first investigation outside the U.K., while newcomers will be just as enthralled. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (Oct.)
From Booklist
As her devoted readers know, George’s D.I. Lynley procedurals are more about characters than crime. This entry is certainly no different, but, unlike the most recent books, which center on a distraught Lynley, recovering from his wife’s murder, the focus is on Lynley’s partner (and polar opposite), D.S. Barbara Havers. It begins when Taymullah Azhar, Barbara’s neighbor, asks for help in finding his beloved daughter, Hadiyyah, with whom his wife has absconded. So begins a sprawling investigation that careens from England to Italy and back again, as cops in both countries investigate child abduction and murder, ending with Azhar looking very like a killer. Through it all, volatile, unkempt, vulnerable Barbara is so invested in Azhar that she loses sight of everything and everyone else. Unfortunately, her stubborn loyalty does not come across as entirely rational this time, but readers who’ve grown attached to the obstinate, outspoken cop over the course of the series will surely forgive her for being blinded by affection. The tale is both overlong and occasionally overwrought, but series fans will not be inclined to put it down unfinished. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Not among the best in George’s long-running and consistently popular series, but still certain to draw many requests among public-library readers. --Stephanie Zvirin
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- Series: Inspector Lynley
- Hardcover: 736 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Adult (October 15, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525952969
- ISBN-13: 978-0525952961
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 2.2 inches
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I am very surprised at the venom directed toward this book (and the fact that most of the 4 and 5 star reviews seem to be from folks who have not read most of the prior series entries). I have read all the books in this series and I have to say I really, really liked this one, and, unlike many of the other reviewers, I believe all the characters acted totally consistently with their prior conduct here. The only reason I gave this 4 instead of 5 stars is that I still haven't forgiven the author for offing Helen, and never will, so she will never get 5, but this work was, to me, by far the best since the Helen debacle. Unlike many others, I did not see this as Havers going off the rails. It was perfectly believable, given how she always acts from the heart as opposed to the head (and given that she threatened to kill a superior officer for Haddiyah in Deception on His Mind), that Havers would do what she did here, and it made me like the character even more. She loves Haddiyah like a daughter, and to me viewed that way her conduct is not surprising at all; nor was it particularly unethical given the outcome and the circumstances. I was surprised, spoiler alert, that Azhar did what he did, but on the other hand had he not done this the odds were great that he never would have seen Haddiyah again, which would have been unthinkable. Also, far from being aloof, I think Lynley did exactly what needed to be done to help Havers without anyone fully realizing what he was doing, since had he also worn his heart on his sleeve in this regard he'd have failed.
I'm really sorry to say it, but Elizabeth George has completely and irrevocably jumped the shark with this one. Her last few novels have shown a trend towards less characterization, more ridiculous plot twists, and more fast-fast-fast writing to get to the next ridiculous plot twist, but I was hoping she'd pull back from those tendencies. Alas, no. This book is a HUGE disappointment. (Some of what I've written below contains mild spoilers, btw.)
I've read the whole series since its beginning, all of them more than once and the earliest ones three or four times. I had been waiting for this book to come out because I wanted to know what would happen with the Hadiyyah cliffhanger from the end of the previous book. Well ... As other reviewers have said, the plot holes here are enormous, the writing seems hurried and careless, and the characters of Azhar and Hadiyyah are weirdly underdeveloped. They -- especially Hadiyyah -- have consistently been two of the richest and most interesting characters in the series, despite their relatively small roles. Hadiyyah barely appears here, even in the scenes where she's present; the characterization that in earlier books has made her so utterly memorable, so "real" seeming (I've thought for years how much I'd like to know that little girl!), just isn't there. Okay, I know, she's been traumatized by the events of the book, but ... George has not given us "Hadiyyah traumatized" here. She's just given us a very quick sketch of "generic little girl, crying." It seems as though she (George) was just sort of phoning it in.
And speaking of Hadiyyah's being traumatized -- that happens because Azhar is suddenly acting completely and utterly out of character.
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