With No One As Witness (Large Print) ebook

by Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George Thrillers and Suspense English

Home Elizabeth George With No One As Witness. A large package there was already brightly wrapped, and Deborah seemed to have been caught in the midst of designing a complicated bow for it.

Home Elizabeth George With No One As Witness. With no one as witness, . This, Lynley said, is not going to be my métier. Oh, the plans are laid, Deborah told him.

Books by elizabeth george. The signs were propitious for this particular house. The car they drove was the largest of the Range Rovers. A gardener visited them once a week. They had a cleaning service as well, and their sheets and pillowcases were laundered, ironed, and returned by a professional.

Elizabeth George writes great books

Elizabeth George writes great books. I have read all of them except What Came Before He Shot Her. I was one of her readers who was upset about that shooting. There are other less dramatic, but important, shifts as well.

I read one of the early Elizabeth George novels years ago and didn't like it. George is an American writing police . I hope to eventually forgive Ms. George, because I enjoyed the series prior to "With No One As Witness"

I read one of the early Elizabeth George novels years ago and didn't like it. George is an American writing police procedurals set in London. Having lived in London myself, I was put off by her unsure grasp of English social customs and mores. I don't know what possessed me to read this, but I must say George has come a long way in the intervening years. George, because I enjoyed the series prior to "With No One As Witness". For now, I'll have to be content with The Inspector Lynley series on PB. .

The killer is a psychopath who does not intend to be stopped. Worse, a devastating tragedy within police ranks causes them to fumble in their pursuit of hi. ith a surprise ending that will shock readers to the core, With No One As Witness is full of the mesmerizing action and psychological intrigue that are the hallmarks of Elizabeth George's work.

With No One As Witness. Author: Elizabeth George. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, Ms. George can do it all, with style to spare.

George has always distinguished her novels by creating a product that is distinctly different from the typical police procedural. The tragic end of "With No One As Witness" seems to have upset many of Elizabeth George's fans. The differentiating factor is that she spends a considerable amount of time telling us about the personal lives of the characters. Personally it increases my respect for a writer I already considered among the best in the genre. A serial killer is preying on young boys.

China boards held crime-scene photographs along with a large schedule containing team members’ names and .

China boards held crime-scene photographs along with a large schedule containing team members’ names and the identifying numbers of the actions assigned to them. Anything remotely possible that could allow us to tie a name to a corpse, run with it. And what’ve we heard from Vice on the most recent body? Has Theobald’s Road given us anything on the boy in St. George’s Gardens? Has King’s Cross? What about Tolpuddle Street?

He saw her go to DI Stewart and have a few words, after which the DI left the room in a tearing hurry.

He saw her go to DI Stewart and have a few words, after which the DI left the room in a tearing hurry. something was up. He didn’t approach Havers to be brought into the picture just yet. Instead he watched her go to the computer on which she’d been digging round for information on the bath-salts bloke from the Stables Market.

“[A] juicy serial killer whodunit.”—USA Today

“Delicately textured...achingly compassionate....It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.”—Seattle Times

The 13th novel in Elizabeth George’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Inspector Linley crime fiction series, With No One as Witness is arguably the most riveting, shocking, and emotionally compelling of the lot. The hunt for a serial killer who has been murdering and mutilating young boys in London has Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley and his team of investigators racing to stop the slaughter, only to have the investigation nearly derailed by one devastating, truly game changing event. An American author, George has been praised as “a master of the British mystery” by the New York Times, one of only two Yanks whose crime novels have been adapted for the PBS TV series, “Mystery,” and her exceptional police procedurals rank with the best of Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, and Ruth Rendell.

Reemiel

I am a long time devote. I began reading the Lynley series when A Great Deliverance was first published in paperback - loved it! I patiently awaited each new paperback release through A Place of Hiding at which point I ran out of steam, in no small part because in this story Lynley only had a cameo appearance. I read these novels especially for the Lynley/Havers relationship. I recently returned to Ms. George with this novel after some friends, who had recently discovered Lynley, were singing Elizabeth George’s praises. I’ve down loaded What Came Before He Shot Her, but will probably skip it for the time being. According to a review, Lynley/Havers only have a cameo appearance again; therefore, I’ll move on to Careless in Red. Now, some general comments about Ms. George. Her great strength is that she elevates her crime novels virtually to the level of literature through her insights and the development of her main characters, who grow and change both within each book, as well as over the series. She is an excellent writer with a great vocabulary; however, she can become a little too stylized occasionally. Over the years her books have become longer and longer. While I feel cheated if a novel is only 300 pages 800 is pushing it. I don’t think writers are paid by the word anymore. Brevity is better. This novel was complicated but you can suss out the culprit before the end through the process of elimination. She overuses the word demur in her last two or three novels. Notwithstanding these minor objections, a satisfying read. I wasn’t bogged down

Malara

I must confess I'm an Elizabeth George fan. Having arrived at this book in the series, I feel I know the main players like friends. Someone wrote in a review that killing of ---(don't want to give it away) was too much and it stopped them reading any more. This in fact shows how intimately we have come to know the characters and hence we grieve as though the person was real. That's the skill of EG as a writer: real characters, excellent story telling!

Celace

Elizabeth George writes great books. I have read all of them except What Came Before He Shot Her. I was one of her readers who was upset about that shooting. I ordered this book because it was missing from my collection. I have all of her other Inspector Lynley books and have now begun to watch the series on DVD.

Hugifyn

This has got to be the most intense book of the Lynley-Havers series. Not so sure I felt comfortable with the ending, though. One thing missing, which was a blessing, George didn't focus upon those two difficult women (Deb and Helen) and their issues with their men. I have become very annoyed and impatient over the prevailing theme of "pander unto me" in her prior books per the the two love interests, Deb and Helen. George presents both gals as very vain, immature, and often PMS'y! I do think that George has dumbed both of them down in last few books, particularly Helen (Deb was never the sharpest knife in the drawer). Barbara (Havers) is more the "real" woman in this series of great mysteries. Glad to see that Barbara got more stage presence in this latest, greatest Lynley-Havers mystery.

Gio

spending the last part of an evening with an allotted period in which to read the next of this series. There are times, at this point, that characters and their lives are real. As it should be in well written fiction.

Aiata

The Inspector Lynley series is one of my favorites and in this particular novel author Elizabeth George makes a major turn in direction, giving us a plot that features a serial killer (not the usual George fare) and a 'simple twist of fate' that changes Lynley's life forever.

There are other less dramatic, but important, shifts as well. Barbara Havers, Lynley's partner and one of my favorite female cop characters, appears to be coming out of her brittle shell, courtesy of a little Muslim girl who lives next door. This is a big deal for Havers, who keeps to herself and often alienates others with her outspoken and impatient behavior.

It remains to be seen how these big alterations in story trajectory will impact future novels, which is why I am awarding this book four stars instead of my usual five for a Lynley novel. I am reading this series in the order it was written, so I don't yet know how this all turns out, even though the follow up novel to this one has already been published.

One of the features of this series that I am especially attracted to is its backdrop of English class consciousness that George deftly weaves throughout the story. Everything these characters do is influenced by the traditional English class system, with Lynley's inherited, aristocratic title (he's an earl) providing a trigger for social commentary. As an American, I never really appreciated the oppressiveness of rigid categories of social class that are incredibly durable, even in a modern democratic state such as the UK. It's easy to gloss over these differences or even to romanticize the ladies and lords of high society when your own experience in the US is far removed from the feelings of inferiority that a class system perpetuates. I very much like the fact that George exposes them and raises questions about merit versus entitlement in a nation that purports to value social justice.

This is not to imply that the US and other western democracies are superior to the UK in terms of entitlement or equity. We have our own aristocracy, after all, and in some ways they are less deserving than the blue bloods of Britain. Why should the privileges accorded to NBA players, business tycoons of questionable ethics or the stars of romantic comedies be considered any less odious than those bestowed at birth to the British upper class?