With No One as Witness

Three murdered boys have been found across London before the police realize they are connected, and the discovery that the first two victims were Black while the third is white transforms the investigation into a media crisis for Scotland Yard. Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley takes the case while distracted by genuine fear for his pregnant wife, and Barbara Havers fights to prove herself professionally after a serious disciplinary action. Elizabeth George's thirteenth Lynley novel ends with an act of savage violence that permanently changes the series.

Charles Keating narrates with the quiet authority the Lynley series requires, giving the procedural investigation and the personal storylines equal weight. His rendering of the serial killer's methodical patience is genuinely unsettling, and the novel's ending lands with full force precisely because Keating has held the emotional temperature steady throughout. At just over ten hours, this pivotal entry in the series cannot be skipped.