Playing for the Ashes, Elizabeth George
Playing for the Ashes, Elizabeth George
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Playing for the Ashes

Author: Elizabeth George

Narrator: Derek Jacobi

Abridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000

Synopsis

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again
find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing--and no one--is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for the
Ashes will make readers "search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure," as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.

About The Author

Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by merri on 2007-06-14 01:44:11

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.

Goodreads review by Paula on August 30, 2019

Wow.......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on November 16, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Aleshanee on January 11, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Britta on August 06, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Stef on October 27, 2017

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

Quotes

"A perfect choice for anyone in the market for first-rate summer fiction."—The Sun, Baltimore

"Those who haven't discovered Elizabeth George ... should rush to read Playing for the Ashes."—US Magazine

"A master of the modern English mystery."—Entertainment Weekly

"Gritty and satisfying."—New Yorker

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