Careless in Red
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 633
- ISBN-13
- 9780061160875
- Type
- novel
About this book
Careless in Red (2008) follows What Came Before He Shot Her as the fifteenth entry, 633 pages, Lynley navigating the personal fallout of the previous two books' events.
Key facts about Careless in Red
Careless in Red is a novel by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 633 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Careless in Red. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061160875 to find the main one.
Careless in Red is book 15 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
Careless in Red is book 15 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows What Came Before He Shot Her. It is followed by This Body of Death. 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 9780061792953
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061160875