| ISBN 9780553386011 Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives. The author who has enthralled millions with masterworks of dazzling novels of literary suspense returns with her most astonishing work yet."Ms. Please try again later. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Please try again. Seller Inventory # 2009240008, Book Description Bantam, 2001. "A Traitor to Memory" is another thick satisfying book by Elizabeth George. His mother, Eugenie, exited his life early on. Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? I found it very disjointed in the way it constantly switched between the story narrative and Gideon's personal narrative. Highly recommend to all detective story fans. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy. But the circumstances of Eugenie Davies's murder appear to center on her children: Gideon, a famous violinist now undergoing psychoanalysis for his sudden inability to play, and the long-dead Sonia, a disabled baby whose drowning death was shrouded in secrecy for her virtuoso brother's sake--at the insistence of their father, Richard--but also trumpeted in the press as the infamous "nanny murder" of its day. The place: Friday Street, Henley-on-Thames, a mere sixty yards from the river, and in front of her house from which they'd departed only moments before, both of them having to duck their heads to avoid a lintel put into a building in centuries past when men and women were shorter and when their lives were more clearly defined. Yet what is truly damaging is what Webberly already knows and no doubt wants Lynley to keep concealed.Now the pressure is on Lynley to find Eugenie Davies' killer. Gordon's "girlfriend" Libby is a companion and counter arguing advocate for Gideon to have a more "normal" existence.
The best of her Lynleys I've read - outstanding and interesting characterisation. 1st Edition. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Condition: new. SIGNED AND DATED 7 JULY 01 By GEORGE ON THE TITLE PAGE -- FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING with a complete number line beginning in 1. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2016.
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--Barrie Trinkle, "This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. The one thing that keeps coming back to me is that it just felt somehow empty, especially in comparison with the previous few books in the series. Then, one rainy evening, Gideon's mother Eugenie travels to London for a …
All books are boxed and shipped with bubble wrap - ALL BOOKS HAVE BEEN BOXED IN CLIMATE CONTROLLED STORAGE AND HAVE NOT BEEN TOUCHED BY ANY OTHER HUMAN THAN ME FOR AT LEAST THE LAST 10 YEARS - ALL BOOKS ARE SEALED AND BUBBLE WRAPPED AND SHIPPED IN BOXES - YOU CAN BUY HERE WITH CONFIDENCE KNOWING THAT A BUNCH OF STRANGERS HAVE NOT HANDLED YOUR BOOK -. I finished A Traitor to Memory last night and have spent most of today trying to find the words to explain why I didn’t like it very much. I did finish it but came quite close to deciding not to finish the book, something that I rarely do. And could her murder have some connection to a twenty-eight-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist who several months earlier suddenly and inexplicably lost the ability to play a single note?For Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, whose own domestic life is about to change radically, these questions are only the first in an investigation that leads him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor. | 350 Minutes He'd seen it from his window, not intending to spy but spying all the same.