George, E: A Banquet of Consequences

@2@Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.@3@@2@The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man‘s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?@3@@2@Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime.@3@@2@Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first page to last, @18@A Banquet of Consequences@19@ reveals both Lynley and Havers under pressure, and author Elizabeth George writing at the very height of her exceptional powers.@3@