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A review by ncrabb
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
3.0
The lovely and talented photographer, Deborah Cotter, has come back to England from her years studying in the U.S. Simon St. James, a forensic scientist, has been in love with her since she was 17. No less ardently in love with Deborah is Inspector Tommy Lynley, who is about to announce his engagement to her at his family home in Cornwall. Awkwardly enough, everyone has been invited to the estate for the announcement, including Simon St. James. It is a diffident and civil love triangle, but a love triangle just the same. Deborah clearly loves them both.
But before the weekend party can break up, the usually peaceful Cornwall countryside is riddled with murder, and everyone’s a suspect from St. James’s sister, Sidney, to Tommy Lynley’s brother. A journalist has been savagely murdered—a journalist whose wife grew up on the Lynley estate—a journalist with plenty of secrets, any one of which could get him killed.
Sidney St. James’s boyfriend also soon turns up dead, and Lynley and others must discover whether his death was accidental.
Almost as suspenseful to me as were the efforts to solve murders was Deborah Cotter’s decision as to which man she would ultimately select. (Because I’ve flounced about through the series, I knew how it would turn out, but watching it unfold in this book was fascinating indeed.
But before the weekend party can break up, the usually peaceful Cornwall countryside is riddled with murder, and everyone’s a suspect from St. James’s sister, Sidney, to Tommy Lynley’s brother. A journalist has been savagely murdered—a journalist whose wife grew up on the Lynley estate—a journalist with plenty of secrets, any one of which could get him killed.
Sidney St. James’s boyfriend also soon turns up dead, and Lynley and others must discover whether his death was accidental.
Almost as suspenseful to me as were the efforts to solve murders was Deborah Cotter’s decision as to which man she would ultimately select. (Because I’ve flounced about through the series, I knew how it would turn out, but watching it unfold in this book was fascinating indeed.