What Came Before He Shot Her
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 703
- ISBN-13
- 9780061246845
- Type
- companion
About this book
What Came Before He Shot Her (2006), 703 pages, is a companion novel told from the perpetrator's perspective following the tragedy that ends With No One as Witness -- it barely features Lynley himself and is best read in its publication-order slot, not skipped.
Key facts about What Came Before He Shot Her
What Came Before He Shot Her is a companion book by Elizabeth George. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 703 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of What Came Before He Shot Her. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061246845 to find the main one.
What Came Before He Shot Her is book 14 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
What Came Before He Shot Her is book 14 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows With No One as Witness. It is followed by Careless in Red. 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 9780061246845