After his wife is murdered, Inspector Thomas Lynley retreats to Cornwall, where he hikes the rugged coastline, trying to walk through his grief. After he discovers the body of a young man who has fallen to his death, Lynley is soon caught in the middle of a seemingly perfect crime.
Bestselling mystery writer Elizabeth George's sixth book in the dramatic Inspector Thomas Lynley series revolves around the "accidental poisoning" of a vicar in a tiny Lancashire town. Lynley's good friends, Deborah and Simon St. James, try to mend their continuing marital troubles with a trip to Winslough, a distant Lancashire town recommended by ...
Drug abuse, deception, family ties, and a bizarre murder are at the heart of the fourth novel in bestselling author Elizabeth George's Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley mystery series. This episode shares Lynley's history with Deborah St. James, when she was fresh from school in America and engaged to him, before her marriage to forensic scientist ...
New Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers must solve the gristly murder of playwright Joy Sinclair on a lonely estate in the Scottish Highlands. A fractious crew of actors involved in their own private battles traveled to the Westerbrae estate for a sequestered reading, only to become suspects in a ...
The anatomy of a murder and the story of a family in crisis, this latest blockbuster by a bestselling author is a powerful, emotional novel full of deep psychological insight that delivers a suspenseful and stunning view of a shocking crime.
George's acclaimed debut novel introduces Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley and his partner Havers who are assigned to a murder in Keldale, where the detectives uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley--and in their own lives as well.
When an adolescent boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and his colleagues tie the crime to a series of killings, but find the case complicated by racial issues.
Bestselling mystery author Elizabeth George's 10th engrossing book about New Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers centers on the corpses of two seemingly unconnected people found near Nine Sisters Henge, a dark, forbidding circle of prehistoric stones on the English moors. Each victim met death under bizarrely different ...
In this gripping Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers mystery, the duo must solve the savage murder of Elena Weaver, a student at St. Stephen's College, Cambridge. When the detectives begin investigating the brutal slaying--perpetrated on an extremely foggy morning while the victim was out running--they begin to uncover the facts about Elena's tense ...
A young girl disappears from the streets of London without a trace. Her mother, a well-respected, conservative MP, is convinced she knows the identity of the kidnapper--the child's father. But Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers soon learn that nothing in this investigation is what it appears to be--and that in betrayal ...
Another intriguing mystery by bestselling author Elizabeth George combines the seemingly disparate lives of a seemingly ordinary woman, a high-ranking superintendent, a cybersex enthusiast, and a famous, psychologically ravaged violin virtuoso. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his sidekicks, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata, investigate the ...
When Guy Brouard, one of the wealthiest residents of the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, is murdered, there are many suspects. Could his killer be one of the underprivileged children he mentored, one of his several former wives, or even someone from his past--a past that includes an escape from Paris during the Nazi occupation of World ...
The disappearance and murder of delicate, 13-year-old Matthew Whatley leads Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his feisty partner, Sergeant Barbara Havers, down a disturbing path of bullying, brutality, and torture. After an old Eton schoolmate begs Lynley to look into the disappearance of one of his charges from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious ...
In a small, sleepy seaside town on the coast of Essex, a member of the growing Asian community is found dead, creating murmurs of a racially motivated crime. On her own, with DCI Lynley on his honeymoon, Sergeant Barbara Havers has secretly followed her neighbor, Taymullah Azhar, to the sea, because he appears to be involved--and then she becomes ...
Basta! is an investigation of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, and the social tensions, land struggles, ethnic conflict, and cruel government that created the rebellion. With a new afterword by the author about Chiapas today and its successes and failures.
This collection of 26 crime stories is from some of the best practitioners of the genre, who also happen to be some of the most successful female writers of all time.
A PRIMER OF BIOMECHANICS is the first volume of its kind to present the principles of biomechanics with a highly clinical orientation. Dr. Lucas and his colleagues (specialists in biomechanics) have assembled a practical guide utilizing case presentations to make this very technical and complicated material palatable to the orthopaedic resident ...
Starbuck was known in his lifetime and is remembered today as a practitioner of verse remarkable for its pathos, intellegence and wit. Grouped together by decades, the poems here reveal Starbuck's developing genius, his technical agility and his singular voice.
Completely rewritten, this guide proves that one doesn't have to spend a fortune to have the vacation of a lifetime down under. This guide shows readers how to get there without going broke, where to stay, and where to find terrific local dining and pubs. It all comes complete with detailed, accurate maps, a complete sightseeing guide, and ...
In this last original book from renowned poet George Starbuck, we see a joyous and clear-eyed deepening of his work as he knowingly approaches death. Starbuck's skill with the American language and sensitivity to the rhythms of vernacular speech, his lyric sensibility (at once erudite and irreverent), and his impish satire engaging broad social ...
In this last original book from renowned poet George Starbuck, we see a joyous and clear-eyed deepening of his work as he knowingly approaches death. Starbuck's skill with the American language and sensitivity to the rhythms of vernacular speech, his lyric sensibility (at once erudite and irreverent), and his impish satire engaging broad social ...
"Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures to Depression", the first volume in a series of clinical assessment handbooks, is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. This volume provides critical overviews of key assessment issues ...
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