Playing for the Ashes

Rating:
Summary: Love/hate
Review: When the body of Test cricketer Keith Fleming is discovered in a country cottage, he is found to have died from smoke inhalation, following a deliberately set fire. DI Lynley and Sgt. Havers follow the investigation through to a very bitter end, involving a broken marriage,a broken love affair, embittered children and an older woman, tormented by unfulfilled love. Add in a group of animal welfare activists and a young woman who is gradually succumbing to the cruel ravages of a muscular degenerative disease, and ,as usual, M/s George gives the reader a long but fascinating story of love, hate and murder.