This is the last book I've read in this series in catch up mode. There is actually one more, but it starts with someone being buried alive. I'm not going there. This book was as usual in an Elizabeth George novel very long, detail and very involved. The version I read is a 1006 page paperback. The book starts out with a very overweight woman being intentionally run over by a speeding car. Then the book opens to a psychiatric session with Gideon, a young violinist, who has suddenly lost the ability to play the violin. He was a child prodigy who, once he picked up a violin, approached it with single minded devotion. Then an older woman is run down in a particularly vicious hit and run. We soon learn she is the mother of the violinist, but he doesn't realize that until much later in the book. As the book goes on we learn that Gideon had a little sister who was drowned by her nanny who got 20 years. Now she's out. There is so much going on in this book that if I wrote much more, it would give the ending again. Suffice it to say that this book is, as usual, both incredibly complex and interesting with that twist at the end that the author makes famous.