Title: was the editor missing too?
Product review: I waited 2 years for the next book in the Havers/Lynley series and what do I get? Simply an overlong, awful boring, simplistic book without the characters that made Elizabeth George's books so fun to read. The interaction between Barbara and Lynley is usually priceless. Lynley's feelings of guilty re. St. James are getting a little dated at this point. The story of Gidon was, well, boring. It went on way too long. Libby, Gideon's sort of weird American girlfriend and the ending were overdown. It was just not interesting. It was easily figured out early on. And EG seemed to incorporate story lines that went no where. What was the point? I wanted to put this one down several times, but did not due to the fact I kept hoping it would get interesting. It does not. I had no issue with Winston getting more play, but the core of her stories - Barbara and Lynley - are what keep readers coming back for more. This really was the story of Gideon, not a Havers/Lynley mystery.
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