Good Read

I have to tell you about a book that I just finished,  "Believing the Lie" by Elizabeth George.  It is the most recent in her Inpsector Lynley series of British police procedurals, but unlike anything I've read of her's before.  He is asked, as a favour, to investigate an accidental death, on the "q.t.".  The book then explores the ripple effect that is started by peoples' reactions to the investigation.  But someone very much had her "tongue in cheek" when writing the book.  Every conceivable twist of a standard mystery novel character appears, from a druggie heir to an evil twin. And every conceivable sexual twist shows up, as well.  And at every turn there is a tabloid writer who wouldn't recognize a story if it bit him.  It's quite long ( amost 700 pages) but worth every minute.  Little work has been done in this house for three days!