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With No One As Witness: A Lynley Novel (A Lynley Novel, 13) Paperback – October 13, 2020

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

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.

When an adolescent boy’s nude body is found draped over a tomb in a graveyard, the police recognize the work of a serial killer who’s been murdering boys in London. This is the killer’s fourth victim but the first to be white.

Hoping to avoid charges of institutionalized prejudice in their failure to pursue the earlier crimes to their conclusion, New Scotland Yard takes the case and hands it over to Lynley and his colleagues Detective Constable Barbara Havers and Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata. The killer is a psychopath who does not intend to be stopped. But a devastating tragedy within their ranks causes the police to fumble in their pursuit, which may bring more fatal consequences.

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“It’s tough to resist George’s storytelling, once hooked.” — USA Today

“George is a master…she upholds the English tradition beautifully.” — Chicago Tribune

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“George fully develops every nuance of the racially loaded case--and every thrill in the chase. But it’s the note on which the novel ends that stuns as the series is violently wrenched onto new ground.” — Daily News (NY)

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Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the MIMI, Germany's prestigious prize for suspense fiction. She lives in Washington State.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Paperbacks; Reissue edition (October 13, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062964194
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062964199
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Elizabeth George was born Susan Elizabeth George in Warren, Ohio.

She is a graduate of University of California in Riverside. She also attended California State University at Fullerton, where she was awarded a master's degree in Counseling/Psychology and an honorary doctorate of humane letters

Professionally, she started out as a teacher. She was employed at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana initially, but there she gave in to her bent for organized labor and was summarily fired along with ten other teachers for union activity. She moved on to El Toro High School in El Toro, California (now called Lake Forest, California), where she remained for the rest of her career as high school English teacher. While employed there, she was selected Orange County Teacher of the Year, a tribute in part to the work she'd done with remedial students for nearly a decade. She left education after thirteen and a half years when she sold her first novel, A Great Deliverance, to her longtime publisher Bantam Books.

She has won the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, and France's Le Grand Prix de Literature Policiere for her novel A Great Deliverance, for which she was also nominated for the Edgar and the Macavity Awards. She has also been awarded Germany's MIMI for her novel Well-Schooled in Murder.

Most of her novels have been filmed by for television by the BBC and have been broadcast in the US on PBS's MYSTERY. Visit her website at www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com

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Marie-Jo Fortis
5.0 out of 5 stars ELIZABETH GEORGE AT HER BEST
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2023
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This is a dark one that contains three tragedies and where active superintendent Lynley, whom I usually find somewhat cold and distant, becomes more attaching. He and his wife are expecting a child while he must deal with the power games of his superior, something that seems increasingly difficult to handle and leads to rebellions and burst outs. But that’s not the tragedy he has to suffer, it goes further, and it breaks your heart.

The other tragedies involve boys. A serial killer keeps murdering young adolescents, black with one exception, and an entire team, including beloved Nkata and Barbara, must race to stop the next murder. Barbara is convinced the murderer is connected to a rehabilitation center for young delinquents, but who could that be? There are odd characters among the teachers, and some who have a dubious past.

When a profiler is added to the investigation team, Lynley is far from pleased. But when the profiler indicates that the serial killer will become bolder in his crimes, he happens to be right. The most recent murder involves rape. Or is that last crime signed by the same murderer?

Happening in London and involving a type of crime that George does not usually address, the pace is faster and the descriptions more succinct. Always gripping, the mystery is also a horror thriller from which the reader cannot escape. What can be more atrocious than the killing of youth?

George manages relief, lighter moments with two nascent romances, one for Nkata, one for Barbara –whose heroism removes her demotion and makes her once more a sergeant.

This is Elizabeth George at her best and I give five stars to this novel which, due to the serial killer topic, could have lacked depth but makes one realize that he is reading a powerful, master story-teller.

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Bragdon
5.0 out of 5 stars A Satisifying Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015
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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
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H. Schneider
4.0 out of 5 stars An American in London
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2008
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E.George is widely considered one of the masters of the police procedure genre. This is, for practical purposes, the first of her novels that I have read (I remember vaguely another one, some years ago, but forgot all about it). It is solid stuff and she is for sure one of the stars in her profession.

The main subject of this novel is a serial killer who targets boys of 12 to 14 years, more often coloured ones. Other themes are police bureaucracy and leadership problems. Plus of course the amazing world of charities looking after endangered youth.

Why not 5 stars?
First of all, the thing is too big! I wanted to read it on a long flight, and could not finish. Is that a quality criterion? Of course not, except that I think she could have kept it slimmer. The result of the size is that off and on it does get a bit slow...
Another reason: while her main characters are all realistic ones (the aristocratic, nice and competent team leader Linley; the competent, but disorganized and socially imbecile Havers; the black sergeant Nkata with the crush for a woman who rejects him and the Brixton Warriors experience; the boss from hell, top cop Hillier), they do not appeal to me, emotionally, on the same level as John Rebus, Arkady Renko, or Aurelio Zen.

The plot is suitably complex for such a brick of a book. The interest lies not only in 'detection' (which is of course the mainstay of the genre), but also in apparently thorough knowledge of London's geography and social structure. While EG definitely has a sense of humour, she has the good sense of not trying to be funny.

All in all a good experience, and I may repeat it for another long flight. (not the same book, silly; another one of the series of course)
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a happy reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Was für ein aufregendes Buch
Reviewed in Germany on January 26, 2024
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Ich konnte es nicht gut beiseite legen, aber ich muss manchmal auch schlafen... Bis zum Schluss blieb es spannend. Erschreckend die Szene vor Lynley 's Tür. Aufregend die Verfolgungsjagd durch die Nacht.
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Lala
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow what a tangled web
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2023
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A thrilling case for Lynley and Havers - couldn't put it down. Elizabeth george writes eloquently and the result is mesmerising.
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5.0 out of 5 stars With no one as witness
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Elizabeth Georges as her best
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent livre ...
Reviewed in France on August 19, 2018
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Comme d'habitude, Elizabeth Georges allie intrigue passionnante à la profondeur de ses personnages. Et tout cela servi par une plume élégante (en version originale)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gran escritora
Reviewed in Mexico on October 25, 2016
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Elizabeth George es una de mis escritoras favoritas. Ademàs de lograr gran suspenso, retrata costumbres y conflictos. Su prosa es rica y muy cuidada. Muy ecomendable
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