I want to fall in love with Elizabeth George. With dozens of books under her belt, she'd be the perfect author to go back to time and again for a good read. But I am losing faith. This is the 3rd book of hers I have read and and it was the worst so far. I like a long book. But length should either result in deep character development or ridiculous/funny/detailed description. Unfortunately George uses length just to repeat the same few ideas/plot points over and over. So it gets really boring.

I am also really tired of her police characters engaging in professionally unethical behavior. It just doesn't seem necessary for them to do their jobs and it raises too many questions about their deeper motivations that George never bothers to answer.

Last but not least, I now have enough perspective to know that shifting points of view are George's thing. And I've also read two in a row now where in addition to multi-person omniscient narration, George intersperses a first-person account (in this case a journal) throughout.

This is really annoying.

All in all, a disappointment. But I will keep trying.