When an elderly woman is deliberately run down and killed on a quiet London street, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley must discover why. It is an investigation that will lead him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Could her murder have some connection to a 28-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist whose talents have been internationally renowned since he was ten? To answer these questions Lynley will put his career in jeopardy even as he tries to safeguard those of his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. Together, they must untangle the dark secrets and darker passions of a family whose history conceals the truth behind a horrific crime.
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"This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. ... [S]ome particularly moving moments."—Publishers Weekly
"A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives."—USA Today
"Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals."—Kirkus Reviews
"A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives."—USA Today
"Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals."—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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I have read all of Elizabeth George's books and I love them. "A Traitor to Memory", however, is my absolute favorite. It tells a story of an artist who has amnesia and is forced to piece together the events of his early life from shreds of memories.
A beautiful addition to the Inspector Lynley series, this book is very long but each page is a feast to read. Don't pass it by!
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I've been reading George's Inspector Lynley novels, in order, and this is the only one that's disappointed me somewhat. It was overly long and it definitely dragged, which is surprising given that these are usually major page-turners. I think she tried a new technique with this one, using flashbacks and playing with time and memory. It's an interesting approach but it made the novel feel slightly disjointed. Furthermore, I found the characters hard to warm up to, especially Gideon and Libby, two of the major characters in the plot. I think she gives Gideon's self-analyzing psychological journey too much time at the expense of Lynley and Havers, and the way he speaks and thinks is hard to imagine coming from a real person or social dynamic. I got so annoyed by Gideon's pompous discussions with his doctor that I really couldn't enjoy the plot itself that much. And finally, I think the plot is a real stretch, and is never fully explained.
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I read this book twice. I forgot I read it when it was first published and started reading it again when I realized I read it before. I enjoyed it the second time through as much as the first, even though I knew the ending.
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