For the Sake of Elena
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 442
- ISBN-13
- 9780553905281
- Type
- novel
About this book
For the Sake of Elena (1992) follows A Suitable Vengeance as the fifth novel, 442 pages, continuing George's dense, multiple-POV approach to grief, class, and family dysfunction alongside the whodunit.
Key facts about For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George wrote For the Sake of Elena, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 442 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553905281 to find the main one.
For the Sake of Elena is book 5 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
For the Sake of Elena is book 5 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows A Suitable Vengeance. It is followed by Missing Joseph. 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 9780553905281