Playing for the Ashes

It was a very good book. Another re-read from the Lynley/St James/Havers etc series. This one is about a cricket player who is killed, and we have to figure out who and why. Half of the story is told by Olivia, a woman who is suffering from ALS (what Stephen Hawkins had). We get to see a little more on Havers this time, and nothing on St. James. A definite read.

Wow.......more

My seventh outing with the fabulous Elizabeth George brings us to 1994, the first to earn 4 stars lately. Volume four was the last to receive 5 stars. Her début had 400 pages and dropped to a typical 300. Weighty hardcovers later in the series foretell a metamorphosis into literary opuses. “Playing......more

Dieses Mal war sehr viel Handlung auf ein psychologisches Profil einer der Beteiligten ausgelegt, eine Art Tagebuch / Rückschau, was alles vor dem Mord vorgefallen ist. Das hat mir etwas zu viel Raum eingenommen, wodurch die Ermittlungen zu kurz kamen. Trotzdem war es insgesamt wieder sehr spannend......more

30 Books in 30 Days / Book #4 (Started in July)......more

I liked this one better than the last one of these I read. I was quite engaged in Olivia's story for most of the book. In the end I just got worn down by sheer volume, there was too much of everything- emotion hardship, more emotion, miscommunication loneliness etc making all together a melancholy m......more