Deception on His Mind
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 710
- ISBN-13
- 9780553575095
- Type
- novel
About this book
Deception on His Mind (1997) follows In the Presence of the Enemy as the ninth entry, 710 pages, one of the series' longest and most research-dense explorations of grief and community beyond Lynley's usual English settings.
Key facts about Deception on His Mind
Deception on His Mind is a novel by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 710 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Deception on His Mind. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553575095 to find the main one.
Deception on His Mind is book 9 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
Deception on His Mind is book 9 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows In the Presence of the Enemy. It is followed by In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner. 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 9780553575095