A Place of Hiding
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 627
- ISBN-13
- 9780553898217
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Place of Hiding (2003) sits between A Traitor to Memory and With No One as Witness as the twelfth book, 627 pages, continuing the series' 35-plus-year exploration of Lynley's personal life alongside its cases.
Key facts about A Place of Hiding
A Place of Hiding is a novel by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 2003. It runs to 627 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of A Place of Hiding. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553898217 to find the main one.
A Place of Hiding is book 12 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 Place of Hiding is book 12 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows A Traitor to Memory. It is followed by With No One as Witness. 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 9780553582376
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553898217