In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 718
- ISBN-13
- 9780375408465
- Type
- novel
About this book
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1999), the tenth novel at 718 pages, continues George's doorstop-length, multiple-POV style, with Lynley and Havers's evolving personal lives running alongside the case.
Key facts about In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Elizabeth George wrote In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1999. The book has 718 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780375408465 to find the main one.
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner is book 10 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
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780375408465