Inspector Lynley · Book 22
A Slowly Dying Cause
- Published
- 23 September 2025
- Pages
- 640
- ISBN-13
- 9780593493588
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Slowly Dying Cause (2025), the twenty-second and most recent entry at 640 pages, continues Elizabeth George's decades-long, character-saturated take on the Scotland Yard aristocrat-detective and his working-class partner.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
A Slowly Dying Cause is book 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Something to Hide. 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 9780593493588