A review by emu36
With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George

5.0

Many people seem to be disgruntled about what happened to Helen Lynley at the end of this book in the Lynley series. I was also upset by the death of Helen because she was probably my favorite character in the books aside from Barbara Havers. However after my initial shock and dismay I sat back and thought about what the books would have been had Helen lived. And I came to the conclusion that George made the right move. Thinking about it now, I couldn't imagine Lynley actually being a father figure. Plus the ideal pairing off of people with the St. James/Deborah and Lynley/Helen situation was just too good to be true. Plus the only real character conflict for the past few books seemed to always and endlessly be Deborah complaining about not having children which was starting to bother me. Now Lynley will ultimately be a more interesting character to read about in the coming books and not so run of the mill which is where he would have been headed had Helen stayed alive.