num_pages: 413
description: “The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”— Entertainment WeeklyThe career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer.Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain’s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart.
language: English
title: Payment In Blood
titlecomplete: Payment In Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)
characters: Simon St. James, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Thomas Lynley
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 22749
places: United Kingdom, Scottish Highlands
series: Inspector Lynley
publisher: Bantam