Feast on A Banquet of Consequences

This weekend was the launch of On the Slab Pie, book #18 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series! Be sure to pick up your copy. There are also some other new releases you should take a look at. You won’t want to get caught without enough beach reads this week!

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A Banquet of Consequences is book #19 in Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. I have read a few other books in this series and they are always full of interesting characters with complex backstories, and a good murder you can really dig into. Though they are police procedurals, there is a lot of information given about the characters before the murder, similar to an Agatha Christie like Death on the Nile. You don’t really hear a lot from the police detectives to start with. In a lot of police procedurals you only view the crime through the eyes of the investigator, but that is not the way the Inspector Lynley books are written.

I am still missing a point or two of the family’s backstory that I think will throw light on the murder. The reader has been pointed from the start toward one particular suspect, but I expect this is a misdirection and I will soon experience a reversal, showing that it was not her, but someone else in her sphere.

* Language warning for those who don’t want to read f-bombs. Mostly in the first couple of chapters by a character with Coprolalia