Payment in Blood

Elizabeth A. George. Bantam Books, $7.99 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-553-28436-2

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is sent to Scotland to solve the death of playwright Joy Sinclair in what PW termed a ``vividly characterized story of murder and espionage with elements of theatrical life, British class consciousness and love gone awry.'' (July)

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