Reading order

Inspector Lynley — family content & reading-order guide

Use the numbered lists below to read each reviewed series in order. Prequels are labeled separately when the catalogue identifies them.

Series order comes from the Dickens & Rumi catalogue sequence data. Open any volume for its individual content guide.

Series

Inspector Lynley

Elizabeth George

Main series

Book 1A great deliverance1988
Book 2Payment In Blood1989
Book 3Well-Schooled In Murder1990
Book 4A Suitable Vengeance1991
Book 5For The Sake of Elena1992
Book 6Missing Joseph1993
Book 7Playing For The Ashes1994
Book 8In The Presence Of The Enemy1996
Book 9Deception On His Mind1997
Book 10In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner1999
Book 11A traitor to memory2001
Book 12A Place of Hiding2003
Book 13With No One as Witness2005
Book 15Careless in red2008
Book 16This Body of Death2010
Book 17Believing the Lie2011
Book 18Just One Evil Act2013
Book 19A Banquet of Consequences2015
Book 20The Punishment She Deserves2018
Book 21Something to Hide2022
Book 22A Slowly Dying Cause2025