Inspector Lynley · Book 16
This Body of Death
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 736
- ISBN-13
- 9780061160882
- Type
- novel
About this book
This Body of Death (2010), the sixteenth novel at 736 pages, continues George's long-form, character-dense approach as Lynley and Havers's professional and personal lives keep evolving across the series' decades.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
This Body of Death is book 16 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Careless in Red. It is followed by Believing the Lie. 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 9780061991462
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061160882