This Body of Death

Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer * Sunday Express * The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about * Sun * Terrific as always - and how great to have Lynley back on the force * Time Out * An intelligent book, clipped and precise, every word chosen with care . . . a cool, clever book that needs concentration and a sharp brain to unravel . . . Along the way to solving the crime we meet some finely drawn characters who emerge as real people with faults and frailties. Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer. Like fine wine, her words need to be savoured . . . Lynley is a policeman with a gentle touch and it is good to have him back on such brilliant form. * <i>Sunday Express</i> * This is crime writing at its finest * Saga * The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about. * <i>Sun</i> * Terrific as always - and how great to have Lynley back on the force. * <i>Time Out</i> * Hurrah, another Inspector Lynley . . . This is crime writing at its finest. George's books are long, solid and wonderfully crafted; she is a modern Dorothy L Sayers. * <i>Saga</i> * A spellbinding tale of mystery and murder * <i>Books Monthly</i> *

Elizabeth George is an Edgar and Macavity Nominee and an internationally bestselling author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Littrature Policire in France. Her novels have been adapted for television by the BBC as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.