The #1 New York Times bestselling author's award-winning series
returns with another stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard
members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara
Havers. Look out for Elizabeth George's newest novel, The
Punishment She Deserves.
The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface
in Elizabeth George's newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic
history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an
ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is
looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted
world of desire and deceit.
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who
will have to deal with its unintended consequences--could there be a
link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific
poisoning in Cambridge?
After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to
redeem herself. So when a past encounter gives her a connection to the
unsolved Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to let her pursue
the crime, knowing one mistake could mean the end of her career.
Full of shocks, intensity, and suspense from the first page to the last,
A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under
mounting pressure to solve a case both complicated and deeply
disturbing.