Inspector Lynley · Book 21

Something to Hide

Published
11 January 2022
Pages
704
ISBN-13
9780593296844
Type
novel
Cover of Something to Hide

About this book

Something to Hide (2022) follows The Punishment She Deserves as the twenty-first novel, 704 pages, Lynley and Havers's partnership still evolving more than three decades after A Great Deliverance introduced them.

Key facts about Something to Hide

Elizabeth George wrote Something to Hide, a novel on our list. It has been out since 11 January 2022. The book has 704 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593296844 to find the main one.

Something to Hide is book 21 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

Something to Hide is book 21 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows The Punishment She Deserves. It is followed by A Slowly Dying Cause. 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…

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