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  • Published: 25 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9781984882622
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Playing for the Ashes





"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again
find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing--and no one--is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for the
Ashes
will make readers "search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure," as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.

  • Published: 25 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9781984882622
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

About the author

Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France. That was followed by the critically acclaimed Payment in Blood and then Well-Schooled in Murder, which was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI, in 1990. Her later novels are the highly acclaimed A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes and In the Presence of the Enemy. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London.

Praise for Playing for the Ashes

Praise for Playing for the Ashes:

  • "A perfect choice for anyone in the market for first-rate summer fiction."--The Sun, Baltimore

  • "Those who haven't discovered Elizabeth George...should rush to read Playing for the Ashes."--US Magazine

  • "A master of the modern English mystery."--Entertainment Weekly

  • "Gritty and satisfying."--New Yorker
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