Inspector Lynley · Book 20
The Punishment She Deserves
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN-13
- 9780525954347
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Punishment She Deserves (2018), the twentieth book at 704 pages, sits between A Banquet of Consequences and Something to Hide, another dense, multiple-POV entry in George's long-running exploration of British class and grief.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
The Punishment She Deserves is book 20 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows A Banquet of Consequences. It is followed by Something to Hide. 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 9780525954347