Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George - ISBN: 9780553385496
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Secrets, cricket, murder: Lynley’s career is on the line.

Playing for the Ashes

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  • Paperback

    688 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2008

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Summary

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems in this “compelling and indefinitely engrossing” (People) novel from the renowned Inspector Lynley series.

When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage’s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten—not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective In…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553385496
ISBN-10:0553385496
Author:Elizabeth George
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House USA Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:688
Release Date:15 April 2008
Weight:584g
Dimensions:208mm x 132mm x 36mm
Series:Inspector Lynley
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Critics Review

“Those who haven’t discovered Elizabeth George … should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.”—Us“Compelling … indefinitely engrossing.”—People “Gritty and satisfying!”—The New Yorker “A master of the modern English mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly

About The Author

Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Polici re. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.

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