This Body of Death

Elizabeth George's masterly new novel brings Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley back onto centre stage in an intricate crime drama. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle Ardery the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley and his team back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result. The murder trail leads Lynley and Havers to the New Forest, and the eventual resolution of the case. Its roots are in a long-ago act of violence that has poisoned subsequent generations and its outcome is both tragic and shocking.