Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George, H&S Fiction, $32.99
He’s the 8th Earl of Asherton, but he’s better known as TV sleuth Inspector Lynley. Literature’s most aristocratic investigator is back and he’s undercover in beautiful Cumbria, quietly looking into the supposed accidental death of a member of a wealthy local family.
Ian Cresswell has left behind a bitter ex-wife, a manipulative boyfriend, and a desperately unhappy son. His extended family isn’t any happier, and Lynley and his likeable working class colleague Barbara Havers are kept busy with a large cast of suspects.
Elizabeth George packs her novels with complex characters leading complicated lives; the joy is in seeing Inspector Lynley politely ferreting out and exposing the secrets they’ve kept hidden from the world.
As it turns out the suspicious death the brought him to the countryside may be the least of his worries, and maybe that was the point in the first place.
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