Inspector Lynley · Book 4
A Suitable Vengeance
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 447
- ISBN-13
- 9783442058839
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Suitable Vengeance (1991), the fourth published book at 447 pages, is actually a prequel set roughly a year before A Great Deliverance, telling the story of Lynley and Havers's first case together -- readers who want personal chronology can read it first, though it isn't required.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
A Suitable Vengeance is book 4 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Well-Schooled in Murder. It is followed by For the Sake of Elena. 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 9783442058839