Secondhand Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley Bargain Book Box SP4255

Secondhand Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley Bargain Book Box SP4255

Sixteen Elizabeth George paperbacks: the first fifteen Inspector Lynley novels in an unbroken run, from A Great Deliverance to Careless in Red, plus Believing the Lie. Thomas Lynley, an earl, and working-class Sergeant Barbara Havers, in long novels with real marriages, grudges and griefs in them. Read in order, they tell one continuous story.

1. Deception on His Mind — Elizabeth George — Barbara Havers, on sick leave, follows her neighbours to an Essex seaside town where a Pakistani man has been found dead and tensions are rising. It is Havers’s book alone, and one of the best.
2. In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner — Elizabeth George — Two bodies lie on a Derbyshire moor, and one of the victims led a double life in London. Havers has been demoted, and Lynley won’t forgive her.
3. A Traitor to Memory — Elizabeth George — A violin prodigy lifts his bow one night and can’t play a note, and a woman is run down in a London street. Both lead back to a child who drowned twenty years before.
4. Believing the Lie — Elizabeth George — Lynley is sent to the Lake District, unofficially, to look into a drowning already ruled an accident. Every member of the family has something to hide, though not what he expects.
5. A Place of Hiding — Elizabeth George — A wealthy man is murdered on a Guernsey beach, and Deborah St James’s old friend is the suspect. The island’s wartime occupation is the heart of the mystery.
6. Careless in Red — Elizabeth George — Lynley is walking the Cornish coast alone, weeks after his wife’s death, when he finds a body at the foot of a cliff. This is the book where he starts to come back.
7. What Came Before He Shot Her — Elizabeth George — The story of an eleven-year-old boy from a London estate, and how he came to be standing on a doorstep with a gun. There is no detective in it, and it is the bravest book in the series.
8. With No One as Witness — Elizabeth George — A serial killer is taking boys in London, and the police noticed late because the first victims were black. The ending changes the series for good.
9. In the Presence of the Enemy — Elizabeth George — A government minister’s daughter is kidnapped, and the ransom demand is that a tabloid editor admit he is her father. Neither parent will go to the police.
10. Playing for the Ashes — Elizabeth George — England’s star batsman dies in a cottage fire in Kent, and his wife, his lover and his patron all have a motive. Half the book is narrated by a dying woman who knows the truth.
11. A Suitable Vengeance — Elizabeth George — A prequel: Lynley brings his fiancée home to the family estate in Cornwall, and a murder exposes everything the family has kept quiet. It shows where every later grudge began.
12. Well-Schooled in Murder — Elizabeth George — A thirteen-year-old scholarship boy is found dead miles from his boarding school. The pupils’ code of silence is harder to break than any alibi.
13. For the Sake of Elena — Elizabeth George — A deaf Cambridge student is killed on her morning run. She proves far more complicated than the victim her father describes.
14. Missing Joseph — Elizabeth George — A vicar dies of poisoning after dinner in a Lancashire village, and the inquest calls it an accident. The motive goes back to a mother and a child.
15. Payment in Blood — Elizabeth George — A playwright is stabbed in a Scottish country house full of theatre people, and Lynley’s close friend Lady Helen was in the next room. He is too jealous to investigate straight.
16. A Great Deliverance — Elizabeth George — A Yorkshire farmer is found beheaded in his barn, with his daughter beside him saying she did it and isn’t sorry. The first Lynley novel, and winner of the Agatha and Anthony awards.