ricky bamford

If someone can explain the time line to me I would be very happy. We know that the year is 1986, the year Prince Andrew and Fergie got engaged. We are also told that the Caplans bought the manor house 10 years previously from the Hoffmans and moved in 8 years ago. That would be 1976 they bought it then, wouldn't it. Shortly before the house was sold, the son, Sebastian Hoffman, went to Mexico and the Lassiters daughter, Georgina, found out she was pregnant. A few months later, presumably in 1976, the Hoffmans senior had left the house, the son said he was returning from Mexico, and Georgina died. Suspicious tarmac was laid simultaneously. However, later in the novel, surprisingly, we are told she died on the 15th March 1982. How can this be? It can't, can it. It's as if la plant realised that the plot in the second half of the book needed to be nearer 1986, for witnesses to be traced etc and so the original time line was just discarded without amending the opening chapters. Yes, the plot is predicable as always but I enjoy the Tennison series for a quick read on a lazy afternoon Sadly, this kind of editorial sloppiness astonishes me and ruined my enjoyment of an otherwise passable book.