{"id":1697,"date":"2010-05-01T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:58:17","slug":"playing-for-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1697","title":{"rendered":"Playing for the Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playing for the Ashes<\/a> (1994) Elizabeth George<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Synopsis:
\nKenny 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And of course we also have the lives of Lynley and Havers–Lynley’s relationship with Helen and Havers slowly developing her own life.
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Bantam Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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