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.
Key facts about Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George wrote Payment in Blood, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1989. The book has 384 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553057010 to find the main one.
Payment in Blood is book 2 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
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