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Mystery · 1992 · PG-13

For the Sake of Elena

by Elizabeth George

A Cambridge student is murdered. Her university is full of secrets.

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 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 very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wai

For17+GenreMysteryLength490 pagesRead time~13.6 hoursCommunity ratings0

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Violence

Some

Campus murder

Language

Some

Adult language

Sexual Content

Barely any

Affair suggested

Substance Use

Barely any

Minimal

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Disability, academic pressure, family dynamics

What this book is about

A deaf Cambridge student is found murdered in the early morning fog near the university. Lynley and Havers investigate a world of academic politics, hidden disabilities, and complicated family dynamics. One of the strongest entries in the series.

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Murder investigation

Adult psychological themes

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