A Banquet of Consequences cover art

A Banquet of Consequences

An Inspector Lynley Novel, Book 19

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

A Banquet of Consequences

By: Elizabeth George
Narrated by: Julie Teal
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first minute to last, Banquet of Consequences reveals Lynley and Havers under pressure.

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy, and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with best-selling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant, Caroline Goldacre, gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime.

Soon Lynley finds himself investigating the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case while Havers and DS Winston Nkata look behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.

©2015 Susan Elizabeth George (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Great Deliverance cover art
Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection cover art
The Killings at Badger’s Drift cover art
Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3 cover art
Last Bus to Woodstock cover art
Deep Waters cover art
White Trash Beautiful cover art
Murder in Tuscany cover art
The Cazalets cover art
Dreaming of the Bones cover art
A Is for Alibi cover art
Brought to Book cover art
Hidden cover art
The Dry cover art
Western Approaches cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Finally a new Elizabeth George. And what a wonderful treat. I enjoyed every minute of it, as the characters and the story unfold.
Very well read also, apart from the West Indian voice of Winston Nkata, which is very difficult to get right.

What an exquisite treat!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Incredibly slow, takes 4 hours to start the main story, but then warms up.

Would you be willing to try another book from Elizabeth George? Why or why not?

Yes

What three words best describe Julie Teal’s voice?

accents terrible

Did A Banquet of Consequences inspire you to do anything?

No

Any additional comments?

The narrator is fairly good but when it comes to Nkata, who is a black Londoner the accent is more like a bad Welsh accent.

Slow

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this installation of the Inspector Lynley mysteries. I have read George for years, and whilst not quite as 'gritty' as some of the earlier work, storyline was a strong one. my only irritation was with the appalling accent of the Winston Nkata character. Simply awful. if you can't do the accent, then just don't try. half the time he sounded almost Welsh and the rest some strange Irish brogue came out.

Thoroughly enjoyed (almost)

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
having felt the story drifting in the last book this is excellent. A good listen.

Elizabeth George is back

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I almost returned this book before I was far in due to the unexpected Tourette's outburst by one of the main characters, it filled me with dread, to be honest, I certainly wasn't looking forward to much of that. I left it for a couple of days then skipped a couple of chapters and I'm glad I did because this main character suicided. Now that isn't as awful as it sounds because he remains a major player all the way through. Bear with me. The story unfolds with many threads and storylines gradually woven together to make a wonderfully complex and satisfying tale. The "baddie" is signposted readily enough but to get to court takes a deal of work and all this comes together well. The only downside is the narrator. For the most part she does a fine job.. Except for one character to whom she gives a strange and bizarre accent. He is described as being London born, of African parents. The dialogue suggests Essex/cockney, innit, but his "voice" is clumsy and unbelievable. And it took many times of hearing him say Bub before I realised the word was Barb, the name. Honestly I don't know what Julie Teal was thinking when she settled on the accent. It's truly Cringe-worthy and I never got used to it. Having got that off my chest, I still think this is a good book.

Satisfying

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews