Inspector Lynley · Book 19

A Banquet of Consequences

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
576
ISBN-13
9780525954330
Type
novel
Cover of A Banquet of Consequences

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.

Key facts about A Banquet of Consequences

A Banquet of Consequences is a novel by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 2015. It runs to 576 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of A Banquet of Consequences. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780525954330 to find the main one.

A Banquet of Consequences is book 19 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with A Great Deliverance (1988). A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 September 2025.

Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest published Elizabeth George book on file, from 23 September 2025.

About Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George is an American author best known for the Inspector Thomas Lynley series of British crime novels, an unusual case of an American writer working almost entirely within English settings and class dynamics. See every Elizabeth George book in order.

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…

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