Title: Contrived to Confuse
Product review: Elizabeth George lets her own agenda get in the way of telling an intriguing tale with this effort. Too many subplots to advance the backstories of each of her stock characters, and too much manipulation of the reader by jumping back and forth in time so that significant clues are not revealed too early, result in a book not up to her previous standards. Moreover, her depiction of English cultural idiosyncracies is beginning to be formulaic rather than charming.
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