Playing for the Ashes

Playing for the Ashes (1994) Elizabeth George

Synopsis:
Kenny Flemming is a brilliant cricket player who seemed to have come out of nowhere, and came to cricket not through the school system by through a factory league. Just before players are to be chosen for the Test matches, Kenny Flemming is found dead, in a house not his own, and the country is in an uproar to discover why he died, and who killed him.

Unfortunately, there is no easy solution, and the killer left little evidence behind, and the possible list of suspects is confused, and becomes only more confusing the more they discover.

Interspersed with the mystery is the life story of Olivia, and her view of the murder–a story that slowly becomes relevant as more of Kenny’s past is unraveled.

And of course we also have the lives of Lynley and Havers–Lynley’s relationship with Helen and Havers slowly developing her own life.
Rating: 9/10

Published by Bantam Books

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