Just One Evil Act: A Lynley Novel Author: Elizabeth George | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C5R7H8O | Format: EPUB
Just One Evil Act: A Lynley Novel Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers like never before. Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help—Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn’t on Hadiyyah’s, their daughter’s, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold.
Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. The Italian police are investigating, and the Yard won’t get involved, until Barbara takes matters into her own hands — at the risk of her own career.
As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.
- File Size: 2728 KB
- Print Length: 721 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1444706004
- Publisher: Dutton Adult (October 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5R7H8O
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,596 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I am very surprised at the venom directed toward this book (and the fact that most of the 4 and 5 star reviews seem to be from folks who have not read most of the prior series entries). I have read all the books in this series and I have to say I really, really liked this one, and, unlike many of the other reviewers, I believe all the characters acted totally consistently with their prior conduct here. The only reason I gave this 4 instead of 5 stars is that I still haven't forgiven the author for offing Helen, and never will, so she will never get 5, but this work was, to me, by far the best since the Helen debacle. Unlike many others, I did not see this as Havers going off the rails. It was perfectly believable, given how she always acts from the heart as opposed to the head (and given that she threatened to kill a superior officer for Haddiyah in Deception on His Mind), that Havers would do what she did here, and it made me like the character even more. She loves Haddiyah like a daughter, and to me viewed that way her conduct is not surprising at all; nor was it particularly unethical given the outcome and the circumstances. I was surprised, spoiler alert, that Azhar did what he did, but on the other hand had he not done this the odds were great that he never would have seen Haddiyah again, which would have been unthinkable. Also, far from being aloof, I think Lynley did exactly what needed to be done to help Havers without anyone fully realizing what he was doing, since had he also worn his heart on his sleeve in this regard he'd have failed.
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