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Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
4.0

I picked this up at a discount bookstore without realizing it was book #18 in the Inspector Lynley series. Oops. Luckily, it didn't really seem to matter. Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers was really the main investigator in this particular book as the crime hit close to home for her. When her next-door neighbor's daughter is kidnapped, Barbara does whatever she can to help the handsome professor find his child. She crosses lines she knows shouldn't be crossed, but she justifies her actions by assuring herself she's taking risks for all the right reasons.

I will admit when the kidnapping mystery was resolved I wondered what the next two hundred plus pages were going to be about. I mean, we had our answer and things seemed fairly well laid out for the inspectors involved. That's when the author throws another mystery into the mix, which carries the book to its final conclusion.