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A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural hematoma is the result of a blow to her head. DI Thomas Lynley, DS Barbara Havers and DS Winston Nkata are called in to investigate a case that touches upon not only the work and the life of the murdered detective but also upon a controversial cultural tradition that damages and often destroys the future of everyone it involves. 

When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it.

Hartaana uskovaisen ja hyvänä perheenisänä tunnettu William Teys löydetään raa’asti murhattuna. ”Minä sen tein. Enkä kadu”, sanoo parhaimpiinsa pukeutunut Roberta Teys isänsä päättömän ruumiin äärellä. Yorkshiressa sijaitsevan rauhallisen Keldalen kylän asukkaat ovat järkyttyneitä. Onko Roberta murhaaja? Ainakaan kylä pappi, isä Hart, ei usko hänen syyllisyyteensä.

Huippumuusikko, viulun ihmelapsi Gideon Davies menettää yhtäkkiä kykynsä soittaa. Kesken Beethoven-esityksen tapahtuu se, mitä jokainen taiteilija eniten pelkää, luomiskyky ehtyy eikä Gideon pysty soittamaan nuottiakaan. Kaikki mitä hän on oppinut ja osannut tuntuu kadonneen muistista. Gideonin on löydettävä mennyt uudestaan, matkattava muistoihin ja selvitettävä itselleen, mitä tapahtui 20 vuotta sitten perheessä, joka silloin vielä oli olemassa.

Calderin nummelta muinaisen kivikehän varjosta löydetään miehen ja naisen ruumiit. Molemmat ovat kuolleet väkivaltaisesti, vaikkakin eri tavoin. Naisuhri tunnistetaan Nicola Maideniksi. Hänen isänsä Andy Maiden työskenteli aikoinaan keskusrikospoliisin salaisimmassa yksikössä ja on rikoskomisario Thomas Lynleyn entinen kollega ja oppi-isä.

Essexissä pakistanilaisen miehen kuolema kuohuttaa hiljaisen Balford-le-Nezin asukkaat hereille. Rapistuneessa lomakaupungissa se on ensimmäinen "epäilyttävä kuolemantapaus" yli viiteen vuoteen. Uhri on pienen mutta voimistuvan aasialaisyhteisön jäsen Haytham Querashi, jonka ruumis löydetään rannalta sodanaikaisesta bunkkerista.

The Haunted House is a skillful portmanteau by Dickens, assembling the best literary talent of his age, including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, Adelaide Anne Proctor, George Augustus Sala and, of course, the literary leviathan himself, to delight us, scare us and occasionally raise a laugh or two before the next moment of fear and dread come calling. 

Wer die Hoffnung verkauft, spielt dem Tod in die Hände... Was als fröhliches Verlobungswochenende von Inspector Lynley und der Fotografin Deborah Cotter auf Howenstow, dem feudalen Stammsitz von Lynleys Familie geplant war, entpuppt sich nach und nach als Alptraum. Im nahegelegenen Dorf wird ein junger Journalist bestialisch ermordet - und alle Spuren führen nach Howenstow.

 "Alla fine, tutto sembra ricondursi al denaro", riflette lapidario Thomas Lynley di fronte all'indagine che lo ha portato in Cumbria, un incarico strettamente confidenziale affidatogli da Sir David Hillier. A chiamare in causa Scotland Yard è Bernard Fairclough, baronetto di recente nomina e ricco industriale, convinto che la morte per annegamento di suo nipote Ian, archiviata dal coroner come accidentale, sia stata in realtà un omicidio. Affiancato da Deborah e Simon St. James, che lo seguono in incognito, Lynley si ritrova a frugare tra gli scheletri nell'armadio di molte.

When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time.

Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry". 

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction - and a little too close to home.

When 13-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child - and then, tragically, for a child killer.

Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first minute to last, Banquet of Consequences reveals Lynley and Havers under pressure. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy, and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself.

This collection includes four book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft: The Scroll, Reconciliation Day, The Compendium of Srem, and The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy. 

It's amazing how the deep-down-inside knowledge that you're beautiful can transform your whole demeanor and the attitude of your heart. But what does it mean to be beautiful? The Proverbs 31 woman provides a vivid picture of the kind of loveliness that can only come from seeking God's will. Elizabeth George guides you in this woman's footsteps with practical tips to help you become a spring of refreshment to others and joyfully tackle your tasks each day.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

From the rumblings of provincial England in Silas Marner and Cranford to a wild and dangerous journey across the Holy Lands in Ivanhoe, these classic novels of the Georgian and Victorian period are as relevant and important today as they ever have been. 

The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George's novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire, deceit, and murder.

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the 43rd day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death, apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a blank before her 13th year. These events propel him into a case that brings Barbara Havers from London....