Title: Boring
Product review: I never thought I would encounter an Elizabeth George mystery as bad as this one. Her prior books have been riveting page-turners that kept me up all night and then gave me nightmares when I finally went to sleep. This book, in stark contrast, was, in a word, dull. I got about half way through it, and skimmed the rest. The characters were both boring and improbable, and there were no flashes of intriguing domesticity to hold my interest. The relationship between Simon and Deborah is absurd; not only does their marriage seem doomed, as far as I can tell there was never any reason to imagine that it could have been anything else.This is a poorly thought-out, poorly conceived, and poorly written book. I hope that Ms George can redeem herself in her next book; otherwise, it will the last one I buy in hardback (or, indeed, at all).
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