A Traitor to Memory

Beschreibung

The tenth novel in the bestselling series that inspired BBC's Lynley<BR><BR>Twenty-eight-year-old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he mastered as a five-year-old prodigy. All he can remember is a single name: Sonia.<BR><BR>Then, one rainy evening, Gideon's mother Eugenie travels to London for a mysterious appointment.

But before she is able to reach her destination, she is struck down and killed on a quiet street.<BR><BR>In pursuing Eugenie's killer, Lynley and Havers come to know a group of people whose lives are inextricably connected by a long-ago death, a trial, and a prison sentence handed down as retribution for a crime no one has spoken of for twenty years.<BR><BR>Praise for A Traitor to Memory<BR><BR>'Absorbing . . .

The pleasure of the book is the slow, surprising and often shocking unravelling of the various links between the main characters'<BR>Marcel Berlins, The Times<BR><BR>'A long and absorbing read that will please lovers of the traditional crime novel'<BR>Scotland on Sunday<BR><BR>'An emotionally satisfying and intellectually compelling read'<BR>New York Daily News<BR><BR>'She can compete with the best . . .

A book worthy of her immense talent'<BR>The Times<BR><BR>'George is excellent at slowly unfolding plot and atmosphere . . . Fine writing and sensitive handling of relationships'<BR>Independent<BR><BR>'Classical music, cybersex and vehicular homicide figure prominently in this sprawling epic . . . This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists'<BR>Publishers Weekly

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