After her lamentable What Came Before He Shot Her, an ill-conceived diatribe about poverty and gun control, Elizabeth George is back on track with her new novel, Careless in Red.  A damaged Inspector Lynley, suffering deeply from the random shooting of his pregnant wife, gets involved in a beach-side murder.  After several months of wandering aimlessly along a bleak coastline, he discovers a body below a cliff and the shock sets off a chain of events that forces him to climb up from his deep depression.  The therapeutic effect of being at least peripherally involved in the murder investigation helps to put him on the road to recovery.  I'm glad that both he and Elizabeth are back.........I'd missed them.

 

Phil