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.
Key facts about A Suitable Vengeance
Elizabeth George wrote A Suitable Vengeance, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1991. The book has 447 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9783442058839 to find the main one.
A Suitable Vengeance is book 4 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 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