Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George

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Bibliographic Details

  • Author: Elizabeth George
  • Title: Believing The Lie (A Lynley Mystery)
  • Publisher: ‎ Dutton Books; First Printing (January 10, 2012)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • Format: Hardcover – 610 pages
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 0525952586
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0525952589
  • Item Weight: ‎ 2.2 pounds
  • Dimensions: ‎ 6.6 x 2.5 x 9.3 inches
  • Age Range: 18 years and up
  • Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
  • Book Condition: Used – Good
  • Dust Jacket Condition: Good (shows some minor shelf wear)
  • Edition: First Printing

 

Synopsis:

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Punishment She Deserves Elizabeth George has millions of fans following her Inspector Lynley series. As USA Today put it, “It’s tough to resist George’s storytelling, once hooked.” With Believing the Lie, she’s poised to hook countless more.

 

Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he’s sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man’s uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio’s digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.

 

Deborah’s investigation of the prime suspect–Bernard’s prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict–leads her to Nicholas’s wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim’s bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family’s veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.

 

About the Author:

Elizabeth George was born Susan Elizabeth George in Warren, Ohio.

 

She is a graduate of University of California in Riverside. She also attended California State University at Fullerton, where she was awarded a master’s degree in Counseling/Psychology and an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

 

Professionally, she started out as a teacher. She was employed at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana initially, but there she gave in to her bent for organized labor and was summarily fired along with ten other teachers for union activity. She moved on to El Toro High School in El Toro, California (now called Lake Forest, California), where she remained for the rest of her career as high school English teacher. While employed there, she was selected Orange County Teacher of the Year, a tribute in part to the work she’d done with remedial students for nearly a decade. She left education after thirteen and a half years when she sold her first novel, A Great Deliverance, to her longtime publisher Bantam Books.

 

She has won the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, and France’s Le Grand Prix de Literature Policiere for her novel A Great Deliverance, for which she was also nominated for the Edgar and the Macavity Awards. She has also been awarded Germany’s MIMI for her novel Well-Schooled in Murder.

 

Most of her novels have been filmed by for television by the BBC and have been broadcast in the US on PBS’s MYSTERY.

 

Visit her website at www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com

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Weight 2.25 lbs

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