A Traitor to Memory

The tenth novel in the bestselling series that inspired BBC’s Lynley

Twenty-eight-year-old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he mastered as a five-year-old prodigy. All he can remember is a single name: Sonia.

Then, one rainy evening, Gideon’s mother Eugenie travels to London for a mysterious appointment. But before she is able to reach her destination, she is struck down and killed on a quiet street.

In pursuing Eugenie’s killer, Lynley and Havers come to know a group of people whose lives are inextricably connected by a long-ago death, a trial, and a prison sentence handed down as retribution for a crime no one has spoken of for twenty years.

Praise for A Traitor to Memory

‘Absorbing . . . The pleasure of the book is the slow, surprising and often shocking unravelling of the various links between the main characters’
Marcel Berlins, The Times

‘A long and absorbing read that will please lovers of the traditional crime novel’
Scotland on Sunday

‘An emotionally satisfying and intellectually compelling read’
New York Daily News

‘She can compete with the best . . . A book worthy of her immense talent’
The Times

‘George is excellent at slowly unfolding plot and atmosphere . . . Fine writing and sensitive handling of relationships’
Independent

‘Classical music, cybersex and vehicular homicide figure prominently in this sprawling epic . . . This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists’
Publishers Weekly