Banquet of Consequences | 
Spitalfields, London:
Since it was only to be a weekend jaunt to Marrakesh, Lily Foster reckoned they could use one suitcase, and a carry-on at that. What did they need to take, really?
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
'He wants your sympathy, and sometimes, India, people mistake sympathy for love.'
Yet what she didn't add was that Charlie's suffering had always touched her. When this happened, her father's lifelong advice about cutting her losses seemed not good sense but rather the easy way out of a relationship in which she'd had expectations which had gone unmet.
“ 'From his mother's womb, untimely ripp'd' came to Rory. how odd it was, she thought numbly, that a single word could trigger a line from Shakespeare completely unrelated to the events at hand.“
pickBetter than her last few books, but not up to the level of the first 6-7 in this series.
Glad to see the focus back on Lynley & Havers, & I like how this ended for Havers.
The Lynley/Daidre relationship feels awkward.
Kill off Ardrey already.
More Nkata, please!
Please bring back Taymullah Azhar & Hadiyyah!
Too many subplots bogged down in too much detail.
And speaking of detail, I don't need to hear about incest to the nth degree.
#mystery
Picking up where I left off with this series. I used to love it, especially Barbara Havers, but the last few were disappointing. Hope this is a return to form for Elizabeth George! #fiction #mystery
Today, I interrupted my little mister cat reading my book... I guess he is as thrilled as me with the "Queen Elizabeth" of mystery ?
pickLoved this Lynley/Havers mystery. This one finds Barbara working away from Lynley on the murder of the UK‘s leading feminist. This book has possibly the very worst mother character I have read- Happy Mother‘s Day all!
When a grey Sunday begs for reading in front of a fire .... and you live in an apartment...
1. Coffee ☕️
2. Super cozy slippers for dark and rainy Seattle days
3. I‘m a sucker for a pine scented candle
4. Chocolate... the darker the better
5. I‘m not a collector... I accumulate books 📚 but then give them away
#allaboutme2017
pickI spent 2014 and the first two months of 2015 reading all of the Inspector Lynley novels and fell in love with them (and maybe the Inspector a little bit 😳). The 19th installment did not disappoint. I'm already itching for the next one to come out and can't find any information on when that might be. Boo. #rockinmay #londoncalling
#somethingforsept #septemberphotochallenge #day17 #womenwriters My pile for this was so big,I had to cut it in half & put them sidebyside so you can read names on the spines.So many women writers on my shelves.I could've shown more. Christie,Gerritsen,George,Fairstein,Reichs,Cleeves,Slaughter&Gentill for crime,Chance,Rowling,Briggs,Arthur,Hamilton,Saintcrow,Maas,Morganstern,Armstrong&McCaffrey for fantasy & Moriarty,Morton&Bronte for the rest.✍🏼
When you realize you've been getting older IRL but the characters in the long-running series don't seem to be aging at the same rate, and your hobbies include knitting, spinning and tatting: you might feel a little off-kilter all of a sudden.
Been about 12 million years since I hung out with DI Lynley and DS Havers.
Been about 12 million years since I hung out with DI Lynley and DS Havers.
pickMore in keeping with the earlier novels, though with more emphasis on Havers than on Lynley. Good old fashioned murder mystery with one especially creepy character.
Almost 100 pages into Elizabeth George's latest and it is as teasingly good as some of her best so far
