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Author: Elizabeth George
ISBN : B00C5R7H8O
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers like never before. Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help—Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn’t on Hadiyyah’s, their daughter’s, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold.
Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. The Italian police are investigating, and the Yard won’t get involved, until Barbara takes matters into her own hands — at the risk of her own career.
As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.
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- File Size: 2728 KB
- Print Length: 721 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1444706004
- Publisher: Dutton Adult (October 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5R7H8O
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Epub Just One Evil Act: A Lynley Novel
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.