Playing for the Ashes

Elizabeth George

eBook - 2008

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems in this “compelling [and] indefinitely engrossing” (People) novel from the renowned Inspector Lynley series. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley! “Those who haven’t discovered Elizabeth George . . . should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.”—UsWhen milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage’s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten—not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Se...rgeant Barbara Havers, begin their investigation, they soon find themselves in conflict with the... more