Inspector Lynley: Playing for the Ashes (Series #7) (Paperback)

from patience_grayfeather

Her plots are so well-woven and she weaves a theme brilliantly thru her plots and subplots. Kenny is dead. His wife, Jeannie, has been struggling to hold onto his love. His patron, Miriam, wants his love as does his lover, Gabriella. Livie, Miriam's estranged daughter, wants Chris's love as he wa...

from tututhefirst

A whopping good read with a large number of possible suspects to the murder of a famous English cricket player found asphyxiated in his bed in the cottage he shared with his mistress. As is becoming normal with George's characters, the personal relationships are featured but don't take over the b...

from judithrs

Playing for Ashes. Elizabeth George. 1994. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is asked investigate a murder of well-known cricket player. As he and stolid, boring, but intelligent Barbara Havers delve deeper into the lives of the suspects he has doubts he can ever prove who killed him. There are p...

from hobbitprincess

This is the 7th of the Inspector Lynley novels. A player for England's cricket team has been murdered. Who did it - the soon-to-be-ex wife who stills love him, the disappointed disreputable teenage son, the "sugar mama" who has taken him under her wing, the "sugar mama"'s daughter who has been di...

from idiotgirl

Kindle. First time I read a novel about Lynley and Havers, have watched them on Masterpiece. Quite nice. Good juxtaposition between a first person narrative by Olivia (why does Olivia matter, why is she in the center of the book, we ask until the end). Like Lynley and Havers. Never got Helen on M...