The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain's foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships, while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart.
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2012-12-11
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Elisabeth George pålitlig som vanligt. Välskrivet med bra intrig och personbeskrivningar.
2010-08-09
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Semesterna 10: Inte riktigt min typ av deckare även om sista tredjedelen av boken var helt okej. Jag är helt enkelt inte förtjust i "closed room"-brott som andas alldeles för mycket 50-tals deckare. Jag gillade TV-serien mycket så när Lynley beskrivs som en blond man krockar bilderna....