Search - This Body of Death (Inspector Lynley, Bk 16)

Good, as always. Elizabeth George is my favorite mystery writer. Keeping this one to add to my Elizabeth George collection.

After two somewhat disappointing books (at least by Elizabeth George standard, in my opinion), I feel as though she has returned. Beautifully written, suspenseful with that raw darkness running through it, I found this book hard to put down. Here and there, the story reverts to a seemingly unrelated crime, the abduction and murder of a young toddler, which I found very difficult to read it was so evil. But the thing that bothered me most about that aspect of the book is the similarities it shares with an actual crime that occurred in Britain several years ago - so similar, that it felt like exploitation to me. In my opinion, Ms George has the creative talent to have made up an equally dark and disturbing crime to fulfill it's role in this story, and she should have done that.

That aside, this was an excellent story, a classic George novel where the mystery comes together in an unexpected way, and no one is who you think they are. WHere I was growing away from Elizabeth George books after the last two, I am back on board, eagerly awaiting what's in store for D.I. Thomas Lynley and Sargeant Barbara Havers.