Elizabeth George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. The critically acclaimed Payment in Blood followed, and Well-Schooled in Murder, which was awarded the prestigious German prize fbr international mystery fiction, the MIMI, in 1990.A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy and, most recently, Deception on his Mind were also highly acclaimed.

Twenty-eight year old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he mastered as a five-year-old prodigy. One fateful night at Wigmore Hall, he lifted his violin to play in a Beethoven trio, and everything in his mind related to music was gone.

Gideon suffers from a form of amnesia,the cure for which is an examination of what he can remember. And what he can remember is little enough until his mind is triggered by the weeping of a woman and a single name: Sonia.

One rainy evening, a woman called Eugenie travels to London for a mysterious appointment. But before she is able to reach her destination, a car swoops out of nowhere and kills her in the street.

In pursuing the killer of Eugenie, Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata come to know a group of people whose lives are inextricably connected by a long-ago death, a trial,and a prison sentence handed down as retribution for a crime no one has spoken of for twenty years.

Maida Vale,London

Gideon

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Acknowledgments