In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

Its place in Inspector Lynley

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner is book 10 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Deception on His Mind. It is followed by A Traitor to Memory. 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…