Customer Reviews
memorable! - By: B. Jonsson, 30 Nov 2004 
Young, beautiful, successful at school, daddy's girl gets brutallly murdered.Her background, her life at the public school, her relationships with friends & family gets dug into by Lynley & Havers. One smalll detail after another, they dig out the real story, the real person behind alll the superlatives & find a girl far different from her father's ideals.
What was thought to be an impersonal random slaying turns into
something intricately more complicated, as they find more & more persons with motives. She reallly wasn't liked at alll.
One of George's best, it kept me guessing right up to the end.
Lynley and, especiallly, Havers are brilliantly depicted.
Kept me guessing right up until the end - By: , 17 Sep 2000 This is the first Elizabeth George book I've read & I was very impressed. The characters were alll vivid & the plot was interesting & kept me guessing alll the way through.
Far superior to anything else I've read by Ms George - By: , 13 Aug 2000 
This was the first Elizabeth George book I read & I loved it. Well written, pacy, plenty of suspects & interesting examinations of why people behave to each other as they do. Not much of that fanciful rubbish about the English aristocracy that mars the other books in the series I've since read either - it took me a while to realise that Lynley is meant to be an Earl from this one (an Earl? in the police force? yeah, right...). Buy this one but only borrow the others....
A brilliant complex book - By: , 14 Dec 1999 Elizabeth George's best novel - takes a number of very different aspects of women's experiences & weaves them into both a gripping detective story & a multi-layered analysis of women's different roles. I have read alll her books & many many more of this genre. This is outstanding & memorable.
