Or to Kalamazoo. She would not go there, she told herself repeatedly. Unfortunately, I became really annoyed really early in the book. I had to spend half the morning trying to find a decent coat. When it got away from her and gained dominance in her life like an overconfident guide into chaos, it never led to anything good. I meant to. Our cities have jails. A great sleuthing experience. Refresh and try again. Of the day, that is. and knew a moment of irrational panic when she thought she'd lost him. See all 3 questions about A Place of Hiding…. This book gets off to a slow start. China, this one's a festival winner. "Hey yourself." "I guess I've blown my wad with this one. hmmm. So you took them, never mind the dust, never mind the tumbleweeds that seemed to have been imported by a special-effects team to make several million dollars' worth of California ocean-view real estate look like Barstow in August, and never mind the fact that the grit got under your contact lenses and the air made your skin feel like peach pits and your hair like burnt hay. as characters just left me cold, and I'm an American. That's just how it is. So she said, "I wasn't really talking about putting together a film, Matt. and the higher truths to which we must all ultimately answer.An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Deborah is extremely upset. Then when? Penny Duane, Kathi Hale, Gloria Gilmartin, everybody who like a good, near great, read. Another great read from Elizabeth George. Buy, Jul 29, 2003 Mar 24, 2009 A Place of Hiding (Inspector Lynley Series #12) 528. by Elizabeth George. And what was worse for the little twits: Their mothers probably looked exactly like them, doing their part to be role models for a lifetime of personal trainers, plastic surgery, shopping excursions, daily massages, weekly manicures, and regular sessions with a shrink. I'll have proofs for you to choose from the day after tomorrow. Maybe four. She'd known for years that Matthew Whitecomb was right for her.China had arrived at this conclusion yet again by the time she reached her bungalow: one thousand square feet of 1920 architecture that had once served as the weekend getaway of an Angeleno. Instead, George has chosen to give the spotlight to Deborah and Simon Saint James, the couple who often play a supporting role to Lynley in his work at New Scotland Yard. take it on the road.”—The New York Times Book Review Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. For they charged the relationship with an undeniable excitement that so far neither one of them had found with anyone else. Here she tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, love and loss . This is book number twelve in the sequence of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley novels but one in which Lynley plays only a peripheral role and readers do not even get a glimpse of series’ favourite Barbara Havers. This time it’s Deborah, seriously, she’s the worst. I also was finding Debra grating during this one. He'd ducked inside a restaurant, he said. "Nothing from her end. . Another book on tape . The hair on these girls swung in the sunlight. I hate it when you do that, Matt. ""It's not going to sound good, China. The reader needs a good degree of patience with George as she interviews characters and plot with crisp descriptions of a unique setting. The plot is tangled enough to keep the mystery alive right to the end, but not so complicated as to put the reader off. so... this one strained credulity just a bit too much. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. If anything, today the wind and the heat made the urgency to put this place behind her worse than normal, like something gnawing at her mood. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. And, oh blessed day, we get to page 300+ before there's any gratuitous sleaze, and that is short-lived, and there's not any more. I don't get why anyone wants to deal with her. All the characters except the main characters ring true and were developed well. Of course the St. James' drop everything and go to Guernsey with Cherokee to find out what has happened. She is horrible and ruined this book for me. (I'm quilting) It was only just barely better than listening to nothing at all. Thirteen of them. But sometimes that many characters, that many hidden things, that many red herrings are just too much. The street sounds on the other end of the cell phone seemed to grow louder for a moment, as if he were throwing himself into the midst of them, forced off the sidewalk by the congestion of the city at the end of a workday.She said, "Matt? ""Goodbye Cambria, then. A place of hiding by Elizabeth George, 2003, BCA edition, in English These little speed bumps appear throughout the book. The child came to a spot where the cement was uneven, lifted on an angle by the root of a tree, and his wheel rammed into the resulting eruption. In this book, Ms. George, Elizabeth George has been one of my favorite mystery writers since I read her first book. There was however, a surprise twist to the story, thank the lord, that made it worthwhile, but in the end, it was not altogether plausible.