With No One As Witness: a novel by Elizabeth George

First-rate***** May 9, 2007

Another in the Lynley/Havers mysteries set in the U.K. George is leagues above the pablum generated by James Patterson and his ilk. She constructs a well-plotted novel. One of her strengths is characterization. Her characters are fully fleshed out and well-developed. This novel involves racial tensions and a backdrop of the seedy lives led by adolescents in the backstreets of London. Apart from that, it is also a cracker-jack police procedural.