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Banquet of Consequences
Banquet of Consequences | Elizabeth George
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime. Soon, Lynley finds himself investigating the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, while Havers and DS Winston Nkata look behind the peaceful faade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first page to last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under pressure, and author Elizabeth George writing at the very height of her exceptional powers.
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majkia
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As usual, complex with deep character studies of all suspects. Lynley and Havers growing and changing too. That's why I so enjoy this series. Consequences indeed.

#Roll100 #HauntedBookshelf #SkeletonCrew

@PuddleJumper

Emilymdxn Looks fantastic! 3mo
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TheSpineView
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Eggs Perfection 🎶 1y
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tokorowilliamwallace
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Spitalfields, London:

Since it was only to be a weekend jaunt to Marrakesh, Lily Foster reckoned they could use one suitcase, and a carry-on at that. What did they need to take, really?

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

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tokorowilliamwallace
Banquet of Consequences | Elizabeth George

'He wants your sympathy, and sometimes, India, people mistake sympathy for love.'

Yet what she didn't add was that Charlie's suffering had always touched her. When this happened, her father's lifelong advice about cutting her losses seemed not good sense but rather the easy way out of a relationship in which she'd had expectations which had gone unmet.

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tokorowilliamwallace
Banquet of Consequences | Elizabeth George

“ 'From his mother's womb, untimely ripp'd' came to Rory. how odd it was, she thought numbly, that a single word could trigger a line from Shakespeare completely unrelated to the events at hand.“

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TiredLibrarian
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Better than her last few books, but not up to the level of the first 6-7 in this series.

Glad to see the focus back on Lynley & Havers, & I like how this ended for Havers.
The Lynley/Daidre relationship feels awkward.
Kill off Ardrey already.
More Nkata, please!
Please bring back Taymullah Azhar & Hadiyyah!
Too many subplots bogged down in too much detail.
And speaking of detail, I don't need to hear about incest to the nth degree.

#mystery

EvieBee I adore this series but I think I paused at book 12. 3y
TiredLibrarian @EvieBee I paused on this series after the tagged book for about 6 years. I was really turned off by the direction she'd taken with some of the main series characters. 3y
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TiredLibrarian
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Picking up where I left off with this series. I used to love it, especially Barbara Havers, but the last few were disappointing. Hope this is a return to form for Elizabeth George! #fiction #mystery

Ruthiella I hope so too! I agree, the last few books have derailed from what they once were...I have read this one and it wasn‘t as terrible as the two before it. (edited) 3y
KathyWheeler I was so upset with What Came Before He Shot Her and the book before it that I have never gone back to this series. 3y
TiredLibrarian @Ruthiella I'm about 1/3 done and I'm cautiously optimistic 😊 3y
TiredLibrarian @KathyWheeler Yes; that one really bothered me. I forgave her, and then she wrote this one (tagged), which really bugged me too. I haven't read one of hers since, and that was about 6 years ago. 3y
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Maggy.reads
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Today, I interrupted my little mister cat reading my book... I guess he is as thrilled as me with the "Queen Elizabeth" of mystery ?

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Booksnchill
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Loved this Lynley/Havers mystery. This one finds Barbara working away from Lynley on the murder of the UK‘s leading feminist. This book has possibly the very worst mother character I have read- Happy Mother‘s Day all!

TiredLibrarian Love Elizabeth George, and Barbara Havers! 7y
Booksnchill @TiredLibrarian Me too- slowly catching up on the last 4! 7y
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Minimalgrl
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When a grey Sunday begs for reading in front of a fire .... and you live in an apartment...

cathysaid 👏👏👏 7y
Bookcation74 Why have I not thought of that before?!?! 7y
Reecaspieces SCORE! 7y
readinginthedark Yeah, I used to laugh about these fake fires on TV, but it really puts you in the right mood! 7y
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Minimalgrl
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1. Coffee ☕️
2. Super cozy slippers for dark and rainy Seattle days
3. I‘m a sucker for a pine scented candle
4. Chocolate... the darker the better
5. I‘m not a collector... I accumulate books 📚 but then give them away
#allaboutme2017

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Minimalgrl
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Oh but I do love Lynley and Havers.....

ErikasMindfulShelf Me too!! 7y
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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I spent 2014 and the first two months of 2015 reading all of the Inspector Lynley novels and fell in love with them (and maybe the Inspector a little bit 😳). The 19th installment did not disappoint. I'm already itching for the next one to come out and can't find any information on when that might be. Boo. #rockinmay #londoncalling

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Lizpixie
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#somethingforsept #septemberphotochallenge #day17 #womenwriters My pile for this was so big,I had to cut it in half & put them sidebyside so you can read names on the spines.So many women writers on my shelves.I could've shown more. Christie,Gerritsen,George,Fairstein,Reichs,Cleeves,Slaughter&Gentill for crime,Chance,Rowling,Briggs,Arthur,Hamilton,Saintcrow,Maas,Morganstern,Armstrong&McCaffrey for fantasy & Moriarty,Morton&Bronte for the rest.✍🏼

Suzze Many of my favorites in those piles!😀😀 8y
[DELETED] 2232195534 @Suzze Many of mine too!! 8y
DebinHawaii Some excellent and favorite titles in your stacks! 👍📚📚 8y
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DaphneAdair
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When you realize you've been getting older IRL but the characters in the long-running series don't seem to be aging at the same rate, and your hobbies include knitting, spinning and tatting: you might feel a little off-kilter all of a sudden.

Posemn Great hobbies I say! ( and yes, I'm getting older). 8y
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DaphneAdair
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Been about 12 million years since I hung out with DI Lynley and DS Havers.

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DaphneAdair
A Banquet of Consequences | Elizabeth George

Been about 12 million years since I hung out with DI Lynley and DS Havers.

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hughes
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More in keeping with the earlier novels, though with more emphasis on Havers than on Lynley. Good old fashioned murder mystery with one especially creepy character.

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AmyWrites
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This is just a portion of my TBR pile. 😬 What to read first?

Megabooks All things cease to appear!!!! 8y
JillMoore1226 Imagine Me Gone!! 8y
Autumn I loved A Short History of Tractors... 8y
AmyWrites You guys are not helping! 😝 I started with Imagine Me Gone and got fifty pages in...it is sloooow. So I picked up All Things Cease to Appear and got into that immediately! 8y
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grumpygirlbooks
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A very twisty, satisfying read. Long though.

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Nazeemh
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Almost 100 pages into Elizabeth George's latest and it is as teasingly good as some of her best so far

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Tonton
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Reading now. Barbara Haversack, you go girl!