A Traitor to Memory
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 864
- ISBN-13
- 9780553582369
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Traitor to Memory (2001) is the eleventh entry and one of the series' longest at 864 pages, following In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner with George's characteristic depth given to every suspect and victim.
Key facts about A Traitor to Memory
A Traitor to Memory is a novel by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 2001. It runs to 864 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of A Traitor to Memory. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553582369 to find the main one.
A Traitor to Memory is book 11 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 Traitor to Memory is book 11 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner. It is followed by A Place of Hiding. 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 9780340752449
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553582369