The more I read the novels of Elizabeth George and less I hang! This is particularly indigestible! Intrigue convoluted, cumbersome, look who wants lucid but is desperate and hopeless about life. A little humor, the devil! All the characters are odious, their motivations are all sexual, it gets boring! Linley, after the death of his wife - was it necessary to eliminate an atrocious manner in a previous novel? - We leaden morale and Havers is not here to give a little salt to the heavy paste. Too bad!