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What Came Before He Shot Her

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The shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best to look out for his family, but that involves a Faustian pact. And the Devil will have his pay.

(P)2007 ISIS Publishing Ltd

Critics Review

PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH GEORGE
She's brilliant
Guardian
The connoisseur's crime writer
Sunday Express
A very fine writer
The Times
A master of the English mystery
New York Times
Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published
Entertainment Weekly
George is a master
Chicago Tribune
A fascinating list of subjects . . . wrenching stories . . . George conveys them all with exceptional grace
People
It's tough to resist George's storytelling, once hooked
USA Today
Author Elizabeth George
Narrator Inika Leigh Wright
Duration 25 hours and 31 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781444741629
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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