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.
Key facts about A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George wrote A Slowly Dying Cause, a novel on our list. It has been out since 23 September 2025. The book has 640 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593493588 to find the main one.
A Slowly Dying Cause is book 22 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with A Great Deliverance (1988). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. It is also the latest published Elizabeth George book on file.
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 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