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With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels)

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Author: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

46 reviews
Sales Rank: 7876

Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 784
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.7

ISBN: 0060545615
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060545611
ASIN: 0060545615

Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the fourth murdered boy -- the first white victim -- his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Scotland Yard on the defensive, scrambling to apprehend a maniac while avoiding accusations of racism.

Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley, distracted by concerns for his pregnant wife, has been assigned to the investigation, along with his disgraced partner, Barbara Havers, who's fighting for her professional future. Winston Nkata -- deservedly, if hastily, promoted to detective sergeant -- is the black face who will speak to the media. But none of them can imagine the tenacity and ingenuity of the killer they seek . . . and no one is prepared for the savage, shocking instant when everything will change forever.

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4 out of 5 stars

Inexcusable and audacity... June 19, 2008
Sue Schern (Los Angeles)
Spoilers: beware..
Although the book itself was terrific as always, and lot's of Barbara which works for me, the author's decision to kill off a main character at the very end is unforgivable... A character who was so very special.. Most readers I have talked to agree...We are the consumers and have some say...She wrote me and said: " I must be a good writer to have upset you so" Well that is true, but it is also selfish and arrogant to think that what your readers want is irrelevant...if you are a writer who is obviously writing for financial gain... I mean in terms of literature these books are far from it... Then she writes the next book ( by the way, it's not even a Lynley /Havers book, but sells it as such) with this wannabe Steinbeck flavor about the sorry sad life of the killer and how it was society that let him down... Bull.. If you want to write about social injustices, then don't be a serial detective writer.. killing off people who matter to your readers and then justifying it by acting like your some Tolstoy does not work for me... and I am not alone....Get back to reality George..We never asked for this..

1 out of 5 stars

Will it ever end? May 30, 2008
Dionne Obeso (California)
I am only about 100 pages into this book, and already wondering if it will ever end. It is boring. Beyond boring. I read the last chapter hoping that it will spice up, but it seems tragic and senseless rather than interesting. I'm giving up on Ms. George before we get going, I'm afraid.

1 out of 5 stars

Very Disappointed February 24, 2008
Sondra K. Miller (chicago, IL United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

It took me two years to finish this book. I adore Elizabeth George and always eagerly await her next novel. But, this book was so boring that I kept putting it down and picking it up and putting it down and picking it up. Very unusual for me to do. I have to confess that I read the "What Came Before He Killed Her" before I finished this novel. That book was far more palatable, but, overlong as is this book. By the time I finished both books I really didn't care "who did it." I must admit that I felt very sad at what happened. I will not give it away in case anyone reading this posting has not read either book.

5 out of 5 stars

Hey! These characters are not real people February 18, 2008
livre
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Some of this book's negative reviews, even outraged ones, have fascinated me. I too have read all of George's police procedurals. I favor British works in this genre and must remind myself that George is American. Regardless of a book's length, I am usually sad when it ends. For me it is like saying "so long" to a good friend who has stopped by for a visit and I don't know when she will be back.

I just learned that Elizabeth George returns later this Spring. I called my daughter who is 17, away at school, and also an avid George fan. My daughter will certainly welcome her back.

My five stars is not only for George. It is for this particular book, a weighty and complex novel that just happens to be a mystery but crosses into the designated genre of literature.

Finally, a reminder: George is not dead, only one of her characters.

5 out of 5 stars

Was not long enough for me! January 19, 2008
W. Craycroft (San Diego, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I discovered Elizabeth George's Lynley / Havers series years ago in an English bookstore in the south of France during a long vacation. I gathered up every book she had published to date and inhaled them. Since then, I've read each of the series as they've been published. "With No One As Witness" is one of her very best -- shocking, gripping, and not long enough for me.

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