Inspector Lynley · Book 13
With No One as Witness
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 784
- ISBN-13
- 9780060759407
- Type
- novel
About this book
With No One as Witness (2005), the thirteenth novel at 784 pages, is a pivotal entry whose tragic ending is followed directly by What Came Before He Shot Her, the companion novel that tells the perpetrator's side of the story.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
With No One as Witness is book 13 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows A Place of Hiding. It is followed by What Came Before He Shot Her. 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 9780060545611
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060759407