Careless in Red: A Novel

Careless in Red: A Novel
by Elizabeth George

Careless in Red: A Novel
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Author: Elizabeth George
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 0061160873
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: Sadly, I Could Not Finish This Book
Summary: 1 Stars

Ms. George is one of my favorite authors. With 200 pages to go, I simply had to put this book down. I just couldn't take any more of it.
Not that it's badly written; she's a strong literary writer. I just found it to be over 700 pages of boring, rhetoric dialogue. It's much too long with much too much being said.
The venerable Thomas Lynley & Sgt. Barbara Havers can't save this one. Havers is one of Elizabeth George's best characters & she doesn't enter this story until over page 270.
I found most all the other characters a bore. The story? How many times can the same things be said in different words?
I just got to the point where I no longer cared who did it.
The book's saving grace is that annoying, whining cow Helen is history. Other than that; the book is awful

Summary of Careless in Red: A Novel

In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime.

After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful memories of Helen's death do not diminish.

On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect.

The head of the vastly understaffed local police department needs Lynley's help, though, especially when it comes to the mysterious, secretive woman whose cottage lies not far from where the body was discovered. But can Lynley let go of the past long enough to solve a most devious and carefully planned crime?

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