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Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George

By Elizabeth George

Release Date: 1994-07-01

Genre: Police Procedural

4.5 (152 ratings)
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case where nothingā€”and no oneā€”is really what it seems in this ā€œcompelling [and] indefinitely engrossingā€ (People) novel from the renowned Inspector Lynley series.

Donā€™t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley!

ā€œThose who havenā€™t discovered Elizabeth George . . . should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.ā€ā€”Us

When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottageā€™s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Pattenā€”not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, begin their investigation, they soon find themselves in conflict with the local investigatorā€”and discover ripples of shock spreading outward from the crime: from the victimā€™s husband, who claims indifference to her faithlessness, to the estranged wife of a member of the national cricket team, to an angry teenager, a former prostitute, and an ex-lover of Gabriella who has sworn her off to save his marriage.

As all of England, as well as the world of national cricket, reels from the crime, Lynley and Havers find themselves working on the most frustratingā€”and politically dangerousā€”case of their careers. And when in an act of desperation Lynley breaks department rules to flush out the killer, he risks his career with New Scotland Yard.

Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George

By Elizabeth George

Release Date: 1994-07-01

Genre: Police Procedural

4.5 (152 ratings)
Read Download
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case where nothingā€”and no oneā€”is really what it seems in this ā€œcompelling [and] indefinitely engrossingā€ (People) novel from the renowned Inspector Lynley series.

Donā€™t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley!

ā€œThose who havenā€™t discovered Elizabeth George . . . should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.ā€ā€”Us

When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottageā€™s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Pattenā€”not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, begin their investigation, they soon find themselves in conflict with the local investigatorā€”and discover ripples of shock spreading outward from the crime: from the victimā€™s husband, who claims indifference to her faithlessness, to the estranged wife of a member of the national cricket team, to an angry teenager, a former prostitute, and an ex-lover of Gabriella who has sworn her off to save his marriage.

As all of England, as well as the world of national cricket, reels from the crime, Lynley and Havers find themselves working on the most frustratingā€”and politically dangerousā€”case of their careers. And when in an act of desperation Lynley breaks department rules to flush out the killer, he risks his career with New Scotland Yard.

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