Inspector Lynley · Book 9
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.
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