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Original Title. Inspector Lynley Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Wo kein Zeuge ist , please sign up. Is it important to read this series in order? Aumonier Well, it is not completely problematic for the first 10 novels, but I strongly advise it anyway for the later novels.

For example, in this book "With …more Well, it is not completely problematic for the first 10 novels, but I strongly advise it anyway for the later novels. For example, in this book "With no one as witness", some major events happens to one of the main character, and it will be very important in future books, and frequently referred to.

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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Wo kein Zeuge ist. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I have been a fan of the Thomas Lynley series from the beginning, reading them in order and loving each one. However, this one takes a plot twist that was a mistake, in my opinion.

I was, quite honestly horrified and heart broken by what happened. I have continued to read the books after this one but I confess it is with less enthusiasm and I find I care less about the characters. It's as though since the author apparently doesn't care enough about the character to give them a life that is at le I have been a fan of the Thomas Lynley series from the beginning, reading them in order and loving each one.

It's as though since the author apparently doesn't care enough about the character to give them a life that is at least not miserable, why should I care?

I don't understand why authors feel they must make their main characters miserable or make them the target of criminals.

As if just because they are detectives, the whole world is out to get them. I quit reading the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell because it got so unbelievable that every criminal on the east coast even knows about, much less wants to kill the Virginia state medical examiner. I find the same disturbing trend in television detective series. Either the main characters themselves or their spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, etc.

It's just too unbelievable. Ok, I'm done with my diatribe. View all 5 comments. I have followed this series from the first book and read them all in order. This one, took me by surprise and brought a tear to my eye, something that does not usually happen. Firstly, Ms.

George for the first time went for a serial killer and also took on a difficult subject of what goes through the mind of a paedophile and their justifications for how they act.

The boys are all from troubled backgrounds and initially treated as runaways, and by the time New Scotland Yard take on the case, the killer has started to escalate. Linley is under so much pressure from the press and his boss, Hillier, he is close to breaking point.

Added to this, Nkata has been promoted by Hillier for all the wrong reasons, Barbara Havers has not had her rank reinstated and there the clock is ticking to stop this killer, before another body is discovered.

I do not want to give too much away here, as some reviews went too far and gave way too much away, but Ms. George took a brave decision here and threw a major spanner in the works in this book. I gave it 5 stars because it make an impact and left me thinking about it, long after I finished it. If you like this series, this book is the best one, in my opinion, todate. I cannot understand why some people gave it one star, maybe they did not follow the series, who knows.

I would highly recommend it, but it should be read in the order of the series. View all 3 comments. I read one of the early Elizabeth George novels years ago and didn't like it. George is an American writing police procedurals set in London. Having lived in London myself, I was put off by her unsure grasp of English social customs and mores.

I don't know what possessed me to read this, but I must say George has come a long way in the intervening years. Not only is she more sure-footed in making her way through the English class system, her gift for plot has truly blossomed. The only real compl I read one of the early Elizabeth George novels years ago and didn't like it. The only real complaint I have is that she way overkills the backstory. Or more properly, backstories.

Even her backstories have backstories. There is no character so minor that his or her motivation is not scrutinized unto the seventh generation. The result is a page rendition of a page story. View 2 comments. Sweet Lord mother of God. Did nobody tell this woman that reading a book about a crazed serial killer is tough enough going? For no apparent reason.

Give me a freaking break. I won't read any more Elizabeth George novels because of this one. I was so angry at what she did to the characters that I swore off her altogether.

A big part of what I enjoy about murder mystery series is that we get to know the primary characters over time, and see them develop. So to mess around with the relationship between readers and characters is to incur the readers' wrath.

I hope to eventually forgive Ms. For now, I I won't read any more Elizabeth George novels because of this one. View 1 comment. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping. She offers little cover for readers from her unyielding gaze upon depravity and cruelty.

Her characters' flaws and poor choices are aggravating and obstinately entrenched. She seldom shrinks from terrible events, cruelty, injustice, casual unkindness, and vile human nature that mar, gouge, and shape the world. While her books are never easy reading, she skillfully uncovers her layered narratives with unrelenting honesty, aided by her misfit collection of unblinking investigators.

The tortuous self-examination of the socially privileged, unfailingly polite, but decidedly non-conforming Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is offset by Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers' abrasive qualities, including a slothful lifestyle and appearance, harsh judgment, social insecurity, and compulsive insight.

Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata offers additional racial and social sensitivity, great instincts, and quiet competence. Havers and Nkata are also unwaveringly loyal to Lynley. This trio of well-developed characters offers excellent opportunities for stretching readers' understanding of human nature and our own self-examination, as well as exploring evil done by and to real and imagined monsters that lurk in darkness and expose our fears and flaws.

In short, Elizabeth George is an excellent writer of weight and substance, who plies her craft in the psychological mystery thriller genre, deftly carrying readers through her complex storytelling with great skill and deep understanding.

While I have read all her other books to date, I somehow missed this piece that is prologue to all subsequent volumes. I knew that these events had occurred, because the lives of the characters are never the same afterward, but I had not experienced the process that makes this volume pivotal to the series. Elizabeth George surgically damages the lives of her creations to make them grow in nearly every book, but this one cuts very close to the bone, with calculated destructive power that shatters and demands future transformation for her characters.

Together with these damaged children of her imagination, we readers experience these events, cope with them, and are finally left with "what we learn from the coping. I don't even know what to say here. I think I am still just ticked. George had too much happening this book and I really think that she would have been better off just sticking with Lynley and Havers third person points of views.

Adding in Winston, the bad guy, a woman, and several others started making me twitchy. With the book setting up a showdown with Lynley's new superior and then the book jumping to something totally unexpected and made no damn sense makes me wonder how this series conti I don't even know what to say here. With the book setting up a showdown with Lynley's new superior and then the book jumping to something totally unexpected and made no damn sense makes me wonder how this series continued after this.

George does not seem to care for married couples see St. James and Deborah and she even showed that Lynley was hesitant after marrying Helen. It's so weird to me to just basically see that all of the people are percent exhausting and then there's murder thrown in to make you want to bang your head a thousand times.

Lynley is also dealing with Webber's replacement, Hiller, who has an ax to grind against Havers and wants to use Winston as the "face" of the police force due to the serial killer targeting mixed race boys.

George though not satisfied with this throws in some other things going on besides this. Havers is dealing with getting her neighbor's child in trouble and fighting with the father about how he treats her. I seriously did not care about this story-line at all. Winston is dealing with a well earned promotion, but knowing it comes with a lot of strings attached.

He is also still thinking about the woman, Yas, he met in one of the prior books. The whole thing read too stalky for me so I was not happy about this story-line. Lynley and Helen are preparing for the birth of their baby and Lynley is dealing with the machinations of Hiller. Hiller just sucks and there's no other word for it. Lynley is doing what he can to make sure Havers can get her rank back, but with Hiller throwing up roadblocks with journalists and a profiler, it doesn't look like it's happening.

Of course St. James and Deborah are in this and I still dislike Deborah. No she didn't do anything wrong in this one, but I just can't stand this character. The writing was a chore to get through. I felt my attention wandering a lot. And then we had a plot twist thrown in that made me feel like I was reading a totally different book. And then it didn't work at all as a whole. The ending I got no words. View all 4 comments.

I have very mixed feelings about this book. I like to read Elizabeth George because I'm so attached to her characters, especially to Helen Lynley because she adds a light touch to the proceedings. Other than Helen, the characters are all very serious and pained in various ways. This book is very well plotted and the characters are as strong as ever.

The ending is satisfying, while leaving me wondering what will happen with these characters next. I have a big problem, though. George has kille I have very mixed feelings about this book. George has killed off Helen and I'm not sure I can forgive her for that.

Heartbreaking, and I'm not sure who will supply the required grace note now that Helen is gone. I also had a second, smaller, but still significant problem. I don't want to see into the mind of the serial killer. There were some keys to the killer's identity embedded in his thoughts, but I don't care. I wish the author had found a different way of doing it.

I like police procedurals and the puzzle of it all, but I don't want my own thoughts polluted by his and I don't care how the killer got the way he is. He is what he is, irredeemable, and needs to be caught and put away somewhere. Full stop. I am done with this book for now. I read the prologue and that made me start this giant novel, but just after a couple of pages I felt totally disenchanted and bored by the story.

The writer has a literary flair and her usage of some proverbs and phrases is amusing at times but the pace of the story is nowhere near that of a fine mystery thriller book. Very slow paced and laden with useless details of London streets and how Barbara Havers smoke cigarettes is quite unnerving as well as annoying.

So, I am done with this one. This one was quite a ride. One of the best in the series, in my opinion. I almost didn't want to read it, having accidentally found out a major plot development in advance.

But Ms. George's writing was spot on in describing how all the characters dealt with the situation. Very realistic. If you're a fan of the series, and the characters, this one is a "don't miss. Kind of like Aslan, if you know what I mean.

I enjoyed reading this book. It took me a moment to get into it as well as get around the dialect. This book is pages or 19 cds long. Starts off slightly boring and takes a minute to kickstart the desire to read. There's a killer going around selecting young black males as his victims and performing painful torture to them. No one ever witnesses these abductions nor does anyone know why these boys would be so susceptible to their killer.

I remember reading this book when it first came out. I had read all its predecessors, but this one put me off Elizabeth George forever more. I also remember there was a great cry and backlash against the author for one particular event in this book, which, I believe, resulted in the subsequent "What Came Before He Shot Her.

On the other hand, any author of a series depends for sales on readers' involvement with and affection for the main and recurring characters -- in addition to finely honed plots.

I believed, and still believe, that Ms. George violated that author-reader pact. She may have explained in "Shot Her," and obviously genuinely believed the events in "Witness" were necessary to take her series wherever she decided it should or needed to go. That's her right. It's my right to decide not to read any more of her books.

All this time later and I'm still aggrieved. I know I wrote a review for this some time ago and I'm disappointed the system seems to have blipped said review into oblivion As with almost all George's books, I loved this one and was so dumbstruck and awed and distressed by the ending that I could not read the sequel to this particular story - 'What Happened Before He Shot Her' I'l I know I wrote a review for this some time ago and I'm disappointed the system seems to have blipped said review into oblivion I'll enthusiastically awaiting the new one, which I've requested from the library and should be coming my way in a week or so FOr the future reader's FYI, there is a sequence to all her books -not just which was written and published first, but the story line of Inspector Linley and his friends and colleagues George is a brilliant writer of crime.

Hope you all enjoy! I have been re-reading the Inspector Lynley series from the start, and this is the first one I remembered well. I'm guessing it left an indelible impression because it's such a devastating story. This time through I was aware of all the forehadowing. Lynley, Havers, and newly promoted Winston Nkata are investigating the serial murders of adolescent boys, and the path leads straight home.

Havers is at her best when she's most vulnerable, and she's finally starting to understand herself better. Ly I have been re-reading the Inspector Lynley series from the start, and this is the first one I remembered well.

Lynley is also at his most vulnerable, especially as he begins to understand how his life is changing with impending fatherhood approaching. This is a gripping novel. I had considered a longer review but I'm not sure this book is worth it. I consider Elizabeth George to be a B level mystery writer. I like Lynley and Havers but tend to find the plotting and prose to be sub par. In fact the Lynley series is one of the few where I prefer the BBC production to the novels themselves.

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