I am a huge fan of Elizabeth George, but have to admit to being quite disappointed with her last novel, which was a bit all over the place and unnecessarily convoluted. However, I am less than a hundred pages into this one, and it is seriously good. I think she is back to form!

UPDATE: Oh my goodness – this is really a great book. But it is quite traumatic to read (particularly as I have read all the others, and tend to ‘live’ them). I do wonder whether this is the last one in the series, because the ending (don’t worry, no spoiler) is so confronting that I don’t see how it can go on.