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    A Place of Hiding

    Written by Elizabeth George

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    An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey's wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II.

    It is from this period of time that his murderer may well have come. But there are others on Guernsey with reason to want Guy Brouard dead: his wives, his business associates, his current mistress, the underprivileged teenagers he mentored-any of whom might have harbored a secret motive for murder. As family and friends gather for the reading of the will, Deborah and Simon St. James find that seemingly everyone on the history-haunted island has something to hide. And behind all the lies and alibis, a killer is lurking. In order to bring this person to justice, the St. James must delve into Guernsey's dark history-both past and present-and into the troubled psyche of someone who may have exacted retribution for the most unspeakable crime of all.

    In A Place of Hiding, bestselling novelist Elizabeth George marks new territory in the darker landscapes of human relationships. She tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, love and loss...and the higher truths to which we must all ultimately answer.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 29, 2003
    ISBN9780739304518
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    • 1/5
      yeah, not very good. but i didn't finish it. it just wasn't doing it for me.. i add this to give you a fairer review of the book.. it was a past review: A PLACE OF HIDING loses nothing with Deborah and Simon St. James atthe helm. Readers will find themselves totally smitten with thecouple and cheer them on. A surprise ending adds to theverisimilitude of the story and offers satisfying relief. This bookis a keeper and one not to miss.
    • 3/5
      I liked this book until the denouement. Not what I imagined. Did not make sense to me.
    • 4/5
      A Place of Hiding. Elizabeth George. 2003. It is always time for a Lynley novel even though he makes only a couple of appearances in this one. Simon and Deborah St. James go to the Isle of Guernsey to help a friend of Deborah’s who has been arrested for murder of Guy Brouard who was forced to flee the Nazis with his sister. He has been working with a local man and his son to establish a museum of memorabilia from the time of the Nazi occupation to honor the men and women of the resistance. Naturally there are numerous suspects and you are surprised in the end. Deborah and St. James have their difficulties too. People who read and loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will enjoy this book.
    • 4/5
      This book started off slowly and it took a while to hold my interest. I should have trusted in Elizabeth George because she never fails to capture my attention with an unexpected twist. This book was no exception. I could have used more Thomas Lynley in the story, but I was happy with what I got. Deborah St. James annoyed me through most of the book, but I still enjoyed the read.
    • 3/5
      This expedition of the Lynley series features St James and Deborah as they go to the Island of Guerney to help a friend of Deborah's who has been jailed for murder. I missed Lynley, Helen and Havers, but enjoyed the setting and the development of the story.
    • 1/5
      yeah, not very good. but i didn't finish it. it just wasn't doing it for me.. i add this to give you a fairer review of the book.. it was a past review: A PLACE OF HIDING loses nothing with Deborah and Simon St. James atthe helm. Readers will find themselves totally smitten with thecouple and cheer them on. A surprise ending adds to theverisimilitude of the story and offers satisfying relief. This bookis a keeper and one not to miss.
    • 4/5
      An excellent mystery set on the island of Guernsey. Deborah St. John is enlisted by old American firends, Cherokee an China River, to help resolve a murder accusation made against China. Deborah and her husband, Simon, journey to Guernsey and are caught up in a complex, situation involving the disappearance of large sums of money, possible art theft, troubled children, sexual passions and small town politics. The novel was flawed only by George's proclivity for having her characters engage in lengthy internal examinations of their own feelings and conflicts which occasionally become tedious.
    • 5/5
      Betty Johnson Elizabeth George's A Place of Hiding (Inspector Lynley, #12) is excellent. Her characters are very well developed, the story transitions are smooth and the various storylines are all wrapped up by the end.Inspector Tommy Linley takes a back seat in this book, as his friend Deborah is unexpectedly reunited with old friends that draw her and Simon into a wonderfully written story of murder and motives. When I had to put this book down for such interruptions as work or sleep, I would find myself wondering what was coming next. She gives nothing away, all the clues are there, misdirections abound, and the ending makes you say "Why didn't I see that before." More than that, I will not say. You will have to find out for yourself!I have not read that many of Ms. George's books, but the ones I have read are consistently very good. Make no mistake, Ms. George does not write cozies (although I love them too). Some of the issues she has explored in her books that I have read include the impacts of poverty, sibling relationships, dependency, and domestic violence. When I finish her books, I invariably can only take a deep breath and say "Wow" - I bet you will too!
    • 3/5
      This is not my favorite of the Inspector Lynley novels. First, Lynley and Havers aren't in the book, or hardly at all. The main characters are St. James and Deborah. I can barely tolerate Deborah. She is a spoiled rotten brat who needs desperately to grow up, and St. James gives into her constantly. Fortunately, in the other books, her part is much smaller than in this one! The mystery itself is a good one. A wealthy man is killed on Guernsey, and the main suspect is an American whom Deborah knew when she was in California. Her brother contacts them to try to free his sister. As in all of George's novels, the plot is complicated and takes many twists and turns. You won't know until the very end who actually committed the murder and why, although for some reason, the ending of this one is less satisfying than the others I have read. (This is the 12th in the series.)
    • 5/5
      Intriguing mystery about who murdered a wealthy man on the Isle of Guernsey.
    • 5/5
      After the virtuoso but overlong A Traitor To Memory, this novel was a more comfortable read. Set in the world of Inspector Lynley but without his presence this novel of contemporary Guernsey harks back to the German occupation with a mystery under investigation by his ex-girlfriend. Elizabeth George is a masterly writer who seems to have found her way again.
    • 4/5
      I wonder if George had to fight with her publisher to get this one published?? Because it would make absolutely no sense to anyone that reads it if they had not already read the Lynley Mysteries. As a companion to said series, this would have been much better if she had not worried so much about making the top story so drawn out and muddled and instead focused more on Simon and Deborah as both individuals and a couple. It pains me that there is so much more to Simon and she just won't put forth the effort with him. Even if she just went snooping around in that intellectual head of his now and again would be much more entertaining than the stiff upper lip she repeatedly gives him. By not giving Simon more true depth, she fails the Tommy, Helen and Deborah as well.
    • 2/5
      It goes off in too many directions. The characters aren't likeable. The solutions to the mysteries are based largely on things the reader couldn't have known about. So - ha ha - the author figured it out. . . not too difficult since she created the mystery.
    • 3/5
      I started reading George's Lynley/Havers mysteries years ago and I loved the first few I read. This one's been languishing on my TBR shelf for a couple of years though. It stars Simon Allcourt-St. James and his wife Deborah rather than Thomas Lynley. Normally, I find St. James a compelling character, but I wasn't too impressed this time out. It felt like George had done a lot of research on Guernsey and thought she needed to work it all into one novel. There were just too many characters, too many red herrings, to keep the story flowing. And I'm usually one who favors digressions. But it didn't work for me in this case.It was good enough for me to stick with it through some 490 pages to find out who done it, but I won't be in a hurry to pick up the next one.
    • 3/5
      Evenly paced formula mystery set on the Channel Island of Guernsey. My favourite character was Margaret, the grasping, domineering, self-righteous mother of Adrian. She is the Fool, allowed full freedom to express herself, free of the burden of being a serious murder suspect.
    • 3/5
      Just finished Elizabeth George's last-but-one, "A Place Of Hiding". And it was, like all of hers, very good in parts; extremely good in the parts that had to do with the actual case, the intricacies of following all the threads of everyone who might have done it, might have had reason to do it, were related to people who might have done it, were related to the victim, and so on. Excellent stuff.But like most of her stories it was also seriously marred by her insistent inclusion of her uninteresting lame overprivileged rich neurotic aristocrats, with whom she lumbered her series so many years ago, and whom she seems utterly unwilling to jettison. She has created so much more interesting characters since then. Barbara Havers is great. Sergeant Nkata. All the one-off characters that show up in one novel only. And her research into different communities and cultures for her books is just excellent. So why can't she dump the whiny aristocrats?The males are not so bad because she's given them jobs, at least. Though I really, really don't give a damn about the long-ago drunk driving accident that crippled one of them and leaves the other one feeling constantly guilty and oh, who cares. I mean, I certainly don't. But the women? Tell me, does she really think that all aristocratic women are whiny yappy neurotic bimbos of limited intelligence and no conceivable social utility? Maybe I'm missing the point and it's all a wicked social satire. Because she gives me no reason at all to care about these people, though she keeps telling me I SHOULD, but what the hell does it matter to me that Helen North-Lynley wears stupid stiletto mules with wobbly heels and little feather things and I'm supposed to think this is endearing? What I actually think is, this woman has WAY too much time, also money, on her hands. Lynley loves her because she always asks him how his day has gone? A dog could do that much. And this one is all about the neurotic Deborah-the-butler's-daughter and Simon something-or-other-St.James and their marriage, and yes, okay, I'm sorry Deborah can't have children. I'm sorry she has doubts about her calling as an artiste. But we're supposed to believe that Deborah has a way with people, they automatically open up to her? If she went babbling on to me the way she does to total strangers who also happen to be murder suspects in the novel I would not instinctively open up to her like a flower in sunlight, I wouldn't. I would tell her to get the hell off my porch. I'd do it in some polite Canadian way (I'm so sorry to hear about your troubled adolescence, now I really must get back to work), but I would leave her standing there, alone, without a particle more information than she came with.And do I care about her troubles in her marriage? Get over yourself, girl, it's not all about you. And while I'm here, get a job. And Helen, get out of the stupid feathery shoes. Only a blowup sex doll wears those things, what were you thinking?Ahem.Right. I admit that in this particular story Deborah gets to grow up a little. But she still needs a day job.And Elizabeth George needs to ditch the aristocrats and write about the characters she's good at. Barbara Havers, for a start.