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Payment in Blood

By: Elizabeth George
Narrated by: Davina Porter
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The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.

©1992 Susan Elizabeth George (P)1992 Recorded Books
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Good Read

Elizabeth George is a terrific writer. The Lynley Havers series is great. But I could listen to Davina Porter read, well anything. She is superb.

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The main characters come to life quickly but

The suspects trapped in a hotel, Agatha Christy -style, were hard to keep sorted. I decided about midway through I didn’t care whodunit and would just concentrate on the tensions between Lynley and his friends. There was enough of that to keep my interest to the end.

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Fantastic writing and narration

Excellent writing and plotting. Lively, believable characters. Elizabeth George is definitely one of the best mystery writers I’ve ever read. Davina Porter is the Best narrator around!

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Enjoyable, but dated

Generally, I love Davina Porter, but I found her characterization of both Havers and Lynley to be discordant and her male voices not to be as good as usual. Her Helen was delightful.

As a modern police procedural, this seems very dated with no cellphones and limited computer usage. Finding clues by going through trunks for old theatre programs seems very hit or miss now.

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Masterful Twists & Turns

I'm working my way through the Inspector Lynley mysteries and am impressed with the complexity of the stories. I can usually figure out American police procedurals but this one evaded me. And Donada Peters has become the voicee of the series characters for me. Well done!

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loved it! excellent writing by Elizabeth George!!!

I love the Inspector Lynley series. Elizabeth George always keeps me in suspense. I'm going to listen to all her books!

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great mystery!

the characters are so well done and the plot full of twists...interesting and fun to read.

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Fair for Elizabeth George

I have read the 7 or 8 most recent Inspector Lynley novels and am a big fan. I went back to this which was an earlier book in the series and found the story only fair and it seemed to drag on, a bit tedious at times.

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Murder Mystery set in an old Scottish Manor House

I enjoyed this mystery. The one thing I wish I had done was jot down the character names and how they were related as I listened to the first couple chapters. It gets really confusing because the suspects are all associated with a theater troupe and many are related. There are many different story lines going on and it was fascinating to see how the author wove them together at the end - surprising Lynley, Havers, and me! There are a lot of twists, intrigue, and several red herrings.

I would definitely recommend reading the first book in this series, "A Great Deliverance," before this one.

The narrator did a great job and I can't wait to read the next in series!

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Ok

There were so many characters and different story lines and such a long book that it was hard to keep track of what was going on. Except that it was not hard to see the main character's prejudice. After a while, it just became noise. But I won't give up on this author.

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