This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel

  Elizabeth George

  WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASHINGTON

  About the Author

  ELIZABETH GEORGE is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and three short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the MIMI, Germany’s prestigious prize for suspense fiction. She lives in Washington State.

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  ALSO BY ELIZABETH GEORGE

  A Great Deliverance

  Payment in Blood

  Well-Schooled in Murder

  A Suitable Vengeance

  For the Sake of Elena

  Missing Joseph

  Playing for the Ashes

  In the Presence of the Enemy

  Deception on His Mind

  In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

  A Traitor to Memory

  I, Richard

  A Place of Hiding

  With No One As Witness

  What Came Before He Shot Her

  Careless in Red

  NONFICTION

  Write Away: One Novelist’s Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

  ANTHOLOGY

  A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women

  Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery

  Credits

  Jacket photograph © Jake Wyman/Getty Images

  Jacket design by Christine Van Bree

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THIS BODY OF DEATH. Copyright © 2010 by Susan Elizabeth George. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  George, Elizabeth

  This body of death / Elizabeth George—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-06-116088-2

  1. Lynley, Thomas (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—England—Fiction. 3. Women—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. 5. Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Dept.—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3557.E478T48 2010

  813’.54—dc22

  2009035547

  EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199146-2

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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