Elizabeth George’s detective Thomas (Lord) Lynley has come a long way from the early days with the painfully manufacture British background appeared as the under researched and over-Britished beloved of the Americans, with creaky stories and wooden posh characters. Mind you, though the characters have deepened, they haven’t become entirely believable
Elizabeth George’s detective Thomas (Lord) Lynley has come a long way from the early days with the painfully manufacture British background appeared as the under researched and over-Britished beloved of the Americans, with creaky stories and wooden posh characters. Mind you, though the characters have deepened, they haven’t become entirely believable. The scruffy Sergeant Havers and the aristocratic Lynley are still strangely foreign, and I have to say, most of the characters in the latest novel, Careless in Red. Lynley, who has taken himself off after the murder of his wife in the last book, stumbles across a murder, and ends up sending for Havers and helping local woman policewoman to find the killer from amongst the strange assortment of misfits, sex addicts and unpleasant folks. Though she’s not at her best with characterisation (though not short of real characters!) George is pretty good with narrative that keeps you guessing, so its not a bad read overall. |