Book description
Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded
intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen's College,
Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and emotional
relationships, with scores to settle and targets to achieve. Until
someone, lying in wait on the bank of the River Cam, where Elena went
running every morning, bludgeoned the young woman to death. Called into
the rarefied world of academia, Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner
Barbara Havers find a tangled skein of love, obsession and desire - a
maelstrom of emotion that has claimed Elena Weaver's life. Elizabeth
George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological
suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the
Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France; Well-Schooled in Murder
was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery
fiction, the MIMI '1990'. Her novels have been adapted for television by
the BBC as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee
as well as an international bestselling author, Elizabeth George lives
in Whidbey Island in the state of Washington.
