![]() ![]() It would be interesting to see what she could do with a new set of characters. There are good moments in this book, but it is very slow and never reaches the heights of which George has proven capable in the past. In Just One Evil Act, the 18th, this trend continues, as the pair goes to Italy to help one of Havers' friends search for his missing daughter. Nearly every long-running series begins to show wear over time, however George's recent entries have grown longer and correspondingly less propulsive and less acute. ![]() Elizabeth George's first several mysteries featuring the mismatched Scotland Yard partners Thomas Lynley (a good-looking aristocrat) and Barbara Havers (the opposite) were some of the finest America has ever produced, plotted with stunning swiftness but simultaneously capable of penetrating psychological depth. William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year. When a book begins with a British earl at a roller derby, it may be that his creator is out of ideas for what to do with him. ![]()
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