With No One As Witness--Elizabeth George

No, Kerry! No fun reads until Friday! Bad Kerry!

Okay, I haven't actually read this but I'm willing to be on what happens. Media and reviews have been talking about how George has ruined the series, that something shocking happens, someone is dead. She must have killed off Havers, and not in any heroic sort of way, but in the way Havers herself would expect to die--beaten to death in her house by a burglar or a serial rapist.

Simon or Deborah? Who gives a rat's ass about the world's dreariest couple? Lynley? Eh. Helen? I'd miss her for the comic relief. Deb's dad the butler? Now, I would be shocked and miss him, but he's relatively minor overall.

So it's got to be good old Havers. Who doesn't love a woman who'd torture her parents with a shrine to their cowardice for 20 years? Who loses her temper, carries a grudge and a chip of granite on her shoulder, gets demoted, screws up and hates herself? Whose small triumphs are home ownership and her friendship with the little neighbor girl? Havers is one of the finest fictional characters ever.

BUT I CAN'T FIND OUT UNTIL NEXY WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!