Payment in Blood (Audible Audio Edition) Elizabeth George Davina Porter Recorded Books Books
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The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.
Payment in Blood (Audible Audio Edition) Elizabeth George Davina Porter Recorded Books Books
I really enjoyed this second book in the series. It is compelling written, draws you in quickly and keeps your interest throughout the book. There are many twists and turns at the end so that you really don't know who is guilty. Ms George is the master of weaving together a mystery, the personal lives of many of the suspects and the personal lives of the detectives. Each person in the book has been well thought out, fully developed and interesting. I am at a loss though at how Lynley without a word of explanation has jumped from his obsession with Deborah in A Great Deliverance to Helen in this book. I almost feel like I've missed something along the way. I like the way the author lets you see how vulnerable Lynley is about his personal life and how he lets it slip over into his professional life causing him to make mistakes and be stubborn about them. That is where good old Havers comes in handy. Love that woman. I read all of these books many years ago then loaned my copies out and never got them back. I decided to read them again now since I remembered them as being superior till Ms George began to sort of lose it somewhere along about the 8th book maybe. These earlier books stand alone as wonderfully written so I'm going to reread the series till I reach the point where I think "what on earth happened to her ability to tell a story" then stop. If you want to read excellent mysteries you are perfectly safe in ordering the first half dozen in the series as I've done. If you have only read recent books by Ms George then don't give up on her but go back to the beginning of the series and read those. They are excellent. Bless her heart. She is not the only author to go off the rails after turning out several superior books.Product details
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Payment in Blood (Audible Audio Edition) Elizabeth George Davina Porter Recorded Books Books Reviews
I actually drew a diagram in an attempt to keep the characters straight. The plot just dragged on and on. None of the characters were believable. I finally gave up.....
This is one of her early books with Inspector Lynley & Barbara Havers. I have read all of the books and have come to
grow fond of Barbara. She is the comic relief in all the murders The story is set in Northern Scotland in a snowstorm with a bunch of rich actors and the play they were going to perform has. been canceled. A lady has been murdered. She was knifed in the throat when all the actors & actresses arrive. Lynley and Havers are summoned which normally they would not. When they arrive they have a meeting to determine who was where and who said what & did what. I found it enjoyable.
Elizabeth George's "Payment in Blood" is a suspenseful, keeps-you-guessing mystery in the tradition of the "country-house murder mysteries". For almost half the book, the reader is cloistered, as are the suspects, in a fledgling country hotel where a horrific murder has been committed. Lynley, Havers and the local police interrogate and inspect as objectively as possible. I would like to stress the "as possible" part. There are a lot of preconceptions and prejudices that seem to hamper the investigation--or, at least, derail it for a while. The other problem the police have is that the majority of suspects are theater people who know how to act, especially act innocent.
Ego conflicts, jealousies, insecurities abound to confuse things even more. All this adds up to a nicely-paced whodunit with a very satisfying solution! Ms. George is rapidly becoming one of my favorite mystery writers.
Over-focus on the sex lives, and lack of them, among her characters turns George's novel into heavy soap opera. Everyone, including the detectives, is too close to hysteria or maudlin self-pity all the time.
As far as mystery plot is concerned, this isn’t Elizabeth George’s best. If she is part of the Agatha Christie tradition, here she deviates a bit by being less cerebral.
The story centers around a theater company and the murder of a playwright, but the real drama lies in the outskirts of this mystery. It goes with aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley’s passion for Lady Helen Clyde—a jealousy so obsessive that it will prevent him from doing his job properly. The display of this Achille’s heel destroys Lynley’s own sense of perfection, but adds something better a vulnerable dimension that makes this member of the nobility part of us after all.
It’s with Sergeant Barbara Havers that most readers will identify, however. To Lynley’s elegance and servant assisted life, she responds with the rushed, stressed ways of the working class. She has no time for herself, can hardly take care of her incapacitated parents, is angry most of the time, particularly at social inequality. In other words, she equates aristocrat with aristo-crap.
This said, to Lynley’s Don Quixote she’s the crucial Sancho Panza. Balance exists once they are together; not a quiet balance, mind you, but a balance that recreates itself with arguments and struggles. They need each other in order to solve clues. One goes with ideas, intuition and imagination; the other gives structure and brings these ideas back to reality when they travel too far.
And that’s why, even when her mystery plots are somewhat circumvoluted like this one, George is engaging. She never shies away from character development, and the personal dramas of her detectives are never too far in the background.
I really enjoyed this second book in the series. It is compelling written, draws you in quickly and keeps your interest throughout the book. There are many twists and turns at the end so that you really don't know who is guilty. Ms George is the master of weaving together a mystery, the personal lives of many of the suspects and the personal lives of the detectives. Each person in the book has been well thought out, fully developed and interesting. I am at a loss though at how Lynley without a word of explanation has jumped from his obsession with Deborah in A Great Deliverance to Helen in this book. I almost feel like I've missed something along the way. I like the way the author lets you see how vulnerable Lynley is about his personal life and how he lets it slip over into his professional life causing him to make mistakes and be stubborn about them. That is where good old Havers comes in handy. Love that woman. I read all of these books many years ago then loaned my copies out and never got them back. I decided to read them again now since I remembered them as being superior till Ms George began to sort of lose it somewhere along about the 8th book maybe. These earlier books stand alone as wonderfully written so I'm going to reread the series till I reach the point where I think "what on earth happened to her ability to tell a story" then stop. If you want to read excellent mysteries you are perfectly safe in ordering the first half dozen in the series as I've done. If you have only read recent books by Ms George then don't give up on her but go back to the beginning of the series and read those. They are excellent. Bless her heart. She is not the only author to go off the rails after turning out several superior books.
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