Listened to this on audiobook. Enjoyed the British accent of the reader. :P As for the book... Mysteries aren't really my thing. I honestly usually find them incredibly tedious. Elizabeth George, however, I do actually like. Her writing style is a cut above most of the genre fiction I've read (in her word usage, dialogue, and sometimes cinematic descriptions of scenes.) and Inspector Lynley is genuinely likable, imo. (I like to imagine him as a young Jude Law. Shut up! Don't ruin it for me. I don't care what he looks like in the show!)

Anyway, the mystery in this one? Eh. I kind of guessed who it was and then the ending sorta just fizzled out. There wasn't a twist or anything exciting at the end. It was just...sort of...over.

I would read more of hers, but this was just meh. ( )

Lynley, still recovering, is hiking when he runs into the body of a boy who's fallen from a cliff while climbing. Things, as usual, aren't what they seem.

Lots of characters to care about and suspect, and Lynley, broken as he is, struggling to deal with it all ( )

Thomas Lynley ya no es comisario de la policía de Londres. Tras el brutal asesinato de su mujer embarazada, no había ninguna razón para permanecer en la ciudad y en su puesto. Es por eso que decide volver a los parajes de su infancia e intentar recuperarse allí del golpe que acaba de recibir. Sin embargo, parece que no va a resultar nada fácil alejarse del crimen. Mientras se encuentra haciendo trekking por los campos de Cornualles, se tropieza con el cadáver del joven Santo Kerne, quien aparentemente se despeñó de un acantilado. Aunque en seguida se hace obvio que alguien manipuló el equipo de alpinismo del chico, Lynley decide investigar por su cuenta y no comparte toda la información que cae en sus manos con la verdadera encargada del caso: la subinspectora Bea Hannaford, una policía capaz y resolutiva, pero algo malcarada. Lo que sí hace es llamar a su antigua compañera Barbara Havers para pedirle ayuda. Havers que tiene órdenes de asistir a la subinspectora y de conseguir que Lynley reanude su actividad como detective en Londres, se dirigirá a Cornualles donde parece que hay una inacabable retahíla de sospechosos de haber podido matar a Kerne: amantes despechadas, padres decepcionados, surfistas expertos, antiguos compañeros de colegio y una madre demente. Cada uno de ellos tiene un secreto que guardar y por el que merece la pena mentir en incluso matar.

Least enjoyable of the P. George books. Too much about irrelevant subplots. ( )

I "read" this in audio format and it turned out to be quite long. I, however, found it very interesting and enjoyed it enough I am "reading" another one of hers in that series. It is a murder mystery and she develops the characters quite well. It might have included some details which were not necessary and maybe could have been shortened, but I did enjoy it. I like descriptions and character development, as you get to know the people in it better. ( )