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Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her bedroom walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge-where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College-her father and his second wife each had their own separate image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of a casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve-until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, first bludgeoned then strangled her.

Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions.

For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and those people who appeared to know her best-from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union. What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind him to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.


Praise for Elizabeth George's "For The Sake Of Elena!"

"Rich in psychological suspense…finely crafted and plotted, with a delicious attention to detail that sets it apart."
--Houston Chronicle

"Like P.D. James, George knows the import of the smallest human gesture; Well-Schooled in Murder puts the younger author clearly in the running with the genre's master."
--People Magazine

"Immensely satisfying."
--The Calgary Herald

"What really sets this book apart from the pack is the depth with which Elizabeth George invests all her characters."
--The Washington Post Book World

"An outstanding practitioner of the modern English mystery…George is a master."
--Chicago Tribune

"Ms. George has crafted a fine and powerful novel sure to delight readers in the mood for a thought-provoking, hard-hitting mystery."
--The Baltimore Sun

"A compelling whodunit…a reader's delight."
--Daily News, New York

"A whacking good murder mystery full of neat twists and turns."
--The Globe and Mail, Toronto


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