Inspector Ramsay · Book 1
A Lesson in Dying
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 185
- ISBN-13
- 9781250413154
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Lesson in Dying opens Ann Cleeves' Inspector Ramsay series, a police procedural published in 1990 at 185 pages. It's the first of six books, followed by Murder in My Backyard.
Its place in Inspector Ramsay
A Lesson in Dying is book 1 in the Inspector Ramsay series. It is followed by Murder in My Backyard. See the full Inspector Ramsay reading order.
Stephen Ramsay is a police inspector working the fictional Northumberland town of Otterbridge, and Ann Cleeves's first police-procedural detective, introduced in 1990 while her Palmer-Jones series was still running. Ramsay is prickly, socially awkward, and quietly working through a difficult divorce across the six novels, and Cleeves uses him to dig into the close-knit, insular communities of North East England — villages and small towns where everyone has history with everyone else, a preoccupation that runs…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250413154