Believing the Lie
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 622
- ISBN-13
- 9780525952589
- Type
- novel
About this book
Believing the Lie (2012) follows This Body of Death as the seventeenth entry, 622 pages, sustaining the series' class-conscious, psychologically dense treatment of grief and family dysfunction.
Key facts about Believing the Lie
Elizabeth George wrote Believing the Lie, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2012. The book has 622 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780525952589 to find the main one.
Believing the Lie is book 17 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
Believing the Lie is book 17 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows This Body of Death. It is followed by Just One Evil Act. 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 9780525952589