In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner
Inbunden bok. Bantam Books. First edition uppl. 1999. 596 sidor.
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In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Elizabeth George
Observera att denna bok är på engelska! Please note that this book is in English.
Hardcover with dust jacket. The book is read once but in condition as new.
Published by Bantam Books in 1999.
First edition
ISBN 0553102354
The central plot deals with two bodies found in a circle of prehistoric stones. Who were they? How did they get there? Did the victims even know each other? Detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers find themselves caught up in a mystery that grows more perplexing the longer they contemplate it.
As usual with George, the mystery itself is well devised and a lot of fun to speculate on as you read.
You don't think of the Agatha Christie style of novel as being overhauled, but in fact, a number of very good writers have been pushing the cosy into some brave new areas. Nancy Pickard, Joan Hess, and Carolyn Hart, to name just a few, have demonstrated that the cosy can be serious as well as seriously (or pointedly, if you prefer) funny.
Over the past decade, Elizabeth George has also been pushing the Christie-style mystery into richer and more rewarding areas. Her new novel, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, is so rich in character, incident, and theme that one finally has to take it seriously, not just as a mystery but as a novel as well. I'm not going to say that it "transcends the mystery genre," because that's offensive to mystery writers. And rightly so. But I will say that, in much the same way that Sharyn McCrumb has expanded the range of the serious crime novel, George has also pushed her particular form to the limits.
Format ca: 24x16x3,5 cm. 596 pages.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 0553102354
- Titel
- In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner
- Författare
- Elizabeth George
- Förlag
- Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 1999
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Mått
- 1 x 1 mm Ryggbredd 34 mm
- Vikt
- 881 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently.
To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now, as Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola's killer was an enemy of her father's or one she earned herself, a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her longtime partner, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim.
Yet the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. And once again they come up against the icy realization that human relationships are often murderous...and that the blood that binds can also kill.
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