Inspector Lynley · Book 14
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.
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