A review by marystevens
A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George

4.0

Another brilliant British police procedural featuring Lynley and Havers. Gideon Davies' estranged mother is the victim of a vehicular homicide. She is a quiet woman beloved by everyone so the range of suspects is pretty sparse. But there's a daughter's death in her past so Lynley and Havers are soon tilling the earth around all her friends and relations. Gideon was a child prodigy with a brilliant career who at 28 just stopped playing and no one knows why. His diary, addressed to his therapist, is interspersed with the investigation. The story centers on all the complex relationships among all those related in any way to the victim and I found it fascinating.