Inspector Lynley · Book 19
A Banquet of Consequences
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN-13
- 9780525954330
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Banquet of Consequences (2015), the nineteenth entry at 576 pages, followed Just One Evil Act into print, George's literary mystery style holding steady over twenty-seven years since the series began.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
A Banquet of Consequences is book 19 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Just One Evil Act. It is followed by The Punishment She Deserves. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.
Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780525954330