“George’s mystery unfolds with great psychological depth, finely drawn people and gorgeous portraits from the English countryside . . [George] can be an essential writer of well-known fiction today.” -The Washington Post

The #1 NY Occasions bestselling author’s award-winning series returns with another stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Consider Elizabeth George’s newest book, The Punishment about A Banquet of Outcomes: A Lynley Book She Deserves.

The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s latest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to find a twisted globe of desire and deceit.

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences-could there be considered a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. Therefore when a previous encounter provides her a link with the unsolved Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to allow her pursue the crime, knowing one mistake could suggest the end of her profession.

Filled with shocks, strength, and suspense from your first page to the last, A Banquet of Effects reveals both Lynley and Havers under installation pressure to resolve a case both complicated and deeply disturbing.