A Banquet of Consequences

A Banquet of Consequences, the nineteenth Lynley novel, divides its investigative attention between London and the Dorset countryside, where the apparent suicide of a young man off a coastal cliff may connect to a poisoning in Cambridge months earlier. George's novel is characteristically dense with psychology and family history, and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, desperate to redeem herself after professional setbacks, pushes the Dorset angle with everything she has.

John Lee has narrated the Inspector Lynley series for years and brings the books' considerable emotional weight to the surface without melodrama. His ability to hold the long, layered sentences of George's prose and sustain multiple points of view across an extended runtime is remarkable. The slow-burn revelations that define George's method reward the patience that audio requires.