Inspector Lynley · Book 2
Payment in Blood
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780553057010
- Type
- novel
About this book
Payment in Blood (1989), the second book at 384 pages, continues the slow-burn class friction between aristocrat-detective Lynley and Havers that runs through George's entire American-authored, unusually authoritative take on English crime fiction.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
Payment in Blood is book 2 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows A Great Deliverance. It is followed by Well-Schooled in Murder. 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 9780553057010