Review:I thoroughly enjoyed the second installment of the DS Manon series. Manon is a delightful mess, as always, and I can't help loving her supreme *humanness.* The mystery in *Persons Unknown* is more immediate than the one in *Missing, Presumed,* and I enjoyed it more because of that. Manon and Davy are both back (yay!) along with a new perspective character, Birdie (who is fantastic and hilarious). This is a steadily paced mystery - it's not urgent, but it definitely kept me turning the pages. I h... Read more

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Review:First book in a trilogy, with great location, believable characters and exciting plot! A new author to me, but this one is so good , and well written with No grammatical errors, I read the next 2 in the series. Recommend highly. Read more

Review:As always, Elizabeth George's books are a great way to spend time out of this world. I love it that the murders are usually a sub-plot; the relationships amongst the characters are always more lively and interesting. Read more

Review:I was disappointed that Inspector Lynley, Helen, Deborah and St. James were not in this book. The story seemed to drag in the middle and it took me several weeks to persevere and finish this book. I usually read Elizabeth George's books in a fews days or less. Read more

Review:It is a very good mystery novel. The characters are well conceived, the plot is genial, the end is sad but very logic.
It goes beyond a typical police story. no bad guys - good guys stuff. Simply human Read more

Review:I believed Elizabeth George's books are lengthy because she spends time in developing her characters. The last one I read was more than 800 pages paperback. I must admit first, I abandoned reading this book after 286 pages, about half way. The setting is a village in Lancashire. There are too many characters, the first one Brendan and his brothers make a rare appearance in the next 200 pages. EG describes every tiny movement and every detail in the setting that not only bored me but was also fou... Read more

Review:Elizabeth George has long been one of my favorite mystery novelists, but I'm afraid I'm done with her, and with Lynley and even Barbara. I've had this one on my Kindle for two weeks, and it just doesn't hold me, seeming to go on and on with nothing at all happening, even after I'm at "55%" finished. I pick it up, read a little, put it down -- and go to my other book (I had to get started on another one to keep from being bored to death!)

I agree with most of the 2-star ratings, about the ... Read more

Review:I love Elizabeth George and always look forward to her next book; however "What Came Before He Shot Her" was a great disappointment. Interest story line and glimpses of life in the stums of London, but the combination of lower class British usage/gang slang/black dialogue made the book hard to read. But, the ending did answer the who and why questions of the on-going Inspector Lynly series. Read more

Review:If cricket is in the background of this novel, other games are developing under the reader’s eyes.

Some—not all—of the suspects here look more like victims than villains. The victim himself, a beloved cricket champion, was more stable with his bat than with women or his all too often neglected children. His attempt at regulating his life will ironically lead to tragedy.

Built like a complex jigsaw puzzle where tortured characters seem to further disassemble the pieces, Playing f... Read more