"For the Sake of Elena" is one of the early Inspector Lynley mysteries, and I liked it. It's hard not to like something when you're looking at Nathaniel Parker, for one thing. For another, I didn't read the book.
A young woman jogger is found dead, and Lynley (Parker) and Havers(Sharon Small) are on the scene investigating. The murdered woman was completely deaf. Her father, a Cambridge professor (Tim Piggott-Smith) is devastated, as is her mother (Selena Cadell). Divorced from her husband, she is both devastated and bitter about the fact that her ex-husband remarried the elegant Justine (Sophie Ward).
As Lynley and Havers go further into the investigation, they find plenty of suspects: a professor at the school whom the victim was reporting for sexual harassment; an ambitious young man whom she rejected; her tutor; and possibly a few others. Elena Weaver loved to party, loved to "shag" and didn't take any of it as seriously as some of her partners.
Secrets are unraveled while the two detectives sort out their personal lives: Parker is trying to work out things with Helen (Lesley Vickerage) - frankly, I think he can do better; and Havers has to make a decision regarding her demented mother.
All in all, very absorbing.
A young woman jogger is found dead, and Lynley (Parker) and Havers(Sharon Small) are on the scene investigating. The murdered woman was completely deaf. Her father, a Cambridge professor (Tim Piggott-Smith) is devastated, as is her mother (Selena Cadell). Divorced from her husband, she is both devastated and bitter about the fact that her ex-husband remarried the elegant Justine (Sophie Ward).
As Lynley and Havers go further into the investigation, they find plenty of suspects: a professor at the school whom the victim was reporting for sexual harassment; an ambitious young man whom she rejected; her tutor; and possibly a few others. Elena Weaver loved to party, loved to "shag" and didn't take any of it as seriously as some of her partners.
Secrets are unraveled while the two detectives sort out their personal lives: Parker is trying to work out things with Helen (Lesley Vickerage) - frankly, I think he can do better; and Havers has to make a decision regarding her demented mother.
All in all, very absorbing.