Elizabeth George

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers

1 - A Great Deliverance (May-1988)
2 - Payment in Blood (Jan-1989)
3 - Well-Schooled in Murder (Jun-1990)
4 - A Suitable Vengeance (Jun-1991)
5 - For the Sake of Elena (Jul-1992)
6 - Missing Joseph (Jan-1993)
7 - Playing for the Ashes (Jul-1994)
8 - In the Presence of the Enemy (Mar-1996)
9 - Deception on His Mind (Jul-1997)
10 - In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Aug-1999)
11 - A Traitor to Memory (Jun-2001)
11.5 - I, Richard (Oct-2002)
12 - A Place of Hiding (Jul-2003)
13 - With No One As Witness (Mar-2005)
14 - What Came Before He Shot Her (Oct-2006)
15 - Careless in Red (May-2008)
16 - This Body of Death (Apr-2010)
17 - Believing the Lie (Jan-2012)
18 - Just One Evil Act (Oct-2013)
19 - A Banquet of Consequences (Nov-2015)
20 - The Punishment She Deserves (Mar-2018)
21 - Something to Hide (Jan-2022)

Whidbey Island

1 - The Edge of Nowhere // Saratoga Woods (Sep-2012)
2 - The Edge of the Water // Possession Point (Mar-2014)
3 - The Edge of the Shadows // Maxwelton Beach (Jun-2015)
4 - The Edge of the Light // Deception Pass (Aug-2016)
5 - Fisherman's Alibi (Sep-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy (Jun-2015)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • A Great Deliverance

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 1

    To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages...

  • Payment in Blood

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 2

    The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no aut...

  • Well-Schooled in Murder

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 3

    When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whateley goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an o...

  • A Suitable Vengeance

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 4

    Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters th...

  • For the Sake of Elena

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 5

    Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother frette...

  • Missing Joseph

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 6

    Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead...

  • Playing for the Ashes

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 7

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Those who haven’t discovered Elizabeth George . . . should rush to read Playing for the Ashes.” -- Us“The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I’m the one who’s answerable for his death....

  • In the Presence of the Enemy

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 8

    Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else...

  • The Surprise of His Life

    in Women On the Case

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...



  • Deception on His Mind

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 9

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of George’s best . . . insightful, tense, and compassionate.” -- Entertainment WeeklyBalford-le-Nez is a dying seaside town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town’s small but growing Asian...

  • Women Who Loved God

    Take an exciting devotional journey through the lives of women of the Bible! Each day, you'll read one woman's story that chronicles her amazing walk with God, receive a Scripture to ponder, and discover new ways to apply spiritual truths to your own...

  • In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 10

    Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of s...

  • The Evidence Exposed

    The "Evidence Exposed": The two-week course on 'Great Houses of Britain' brings together a varied group of enthusiasts. When one of their number turns up dead, Inspector Thomas Lynley makes a cameo appearance. "I, Richard": Malcolm Cousins has spent ...

  • Remember, I'll Always Love You

    Remember, I'll Always Love You is in the classic gothic mode: it's the story of a woman---a widow---beset by a mystery, setting out on a journey to find the truth behind it and threatened by physical and psychological risks along the way. We find pas...

  • A Traitor to Memory

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 11

    When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eug...

  • I, Richard

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 11.5

    In these five tantalizing and original tales, George plumbs the depths of human nature--and human weakness--as only she can. From the chilling tale of a marriage built on an appalling set of lies that only death can reveal, to the final, title story ...

  • A Place of Hiding

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 12

    An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey's wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his l...

  • With No One As Witness

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 13

    The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the fourth murdered boy--the first white victim--his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Sc...

  • What Came Before He Shot Her

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 14

    The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy. Who is he? Where did he come from? And...



  • Careless in Red

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 15

    He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk... Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak, and rugged coastline. But ...

  • Two of the Deadliest

    A collection of twenty-three indelible stories--all never before published--from today's top female crime writers and some talented newcomers, selected by the New York Times bestselling author Anger . . . Jealousy . . . Gluttony . . . Sloth . . ....

  • This Body of Death

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 16

    New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George is back with a spellbinding tale of mystery and murder featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back ...

  • Believing the Lie

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 17

    Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing o...

  • Words

    Words are our priceless possession with unparalleled potential for impacting exponentially our lives and the lives of those we touch! What is more powerful than words? Yet we use them with reckless abandon, seemingly unaware of their potent ability t...

  • Eyes to See

    Seeing . . . to perceive with the eyes and understand with the heart. What do you see? There are not very many influences in life that impact us more than our sight, but God has declared that if our faith rests upon the visual, it isn’t faith at al...

  • The Edge of Nowhere // Saratoga Woods

    Whidbey Island - 1

    Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear "whispers"--the thoughts of o...

  • Just One Evil Act

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 18

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers like never before. Barbara is at a loss: T...

  • The Edge of the Water // Possession Point

    Whidbey Island - 2

    A mysterious girl who won’t speak; a coal black seal named Nera that returns to the same place very year; a bitter feud of unknown origin -- strange things are happening on Whidbey Island, and Becca King, is drawn into the maelstrom of events. B...

  • A Young Woman After God's Own Heart

    What does it mean to live God in your everyday life? It means knowing and following God's perfect plan for you as a young woman. Learn how to... • grow close to God •get along with your family and friends •make the right kinds of choices ...



  • The Edge of the Shadows // Maxwelton Beach

    Whidbey Island - 3

    The first fire may have been an accident, but what about the second? And the third -- the one that killed someone. Becca King and her friends wonder if one of the newcomers to the island is to blame. Perhaps it’s Isis Martin’s brother, Aidan, jus...

  • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy

    Bibliomysteries

    Jane Shore was born into a quiet life -- the sickly, most easily overlooked daughter of a brood of eight boisterous children. But Jane’s tendency to fall ill and her natural penchant for devouring stories in her sickbed reveal a most extraordinary ...

  • A Banquet of Consequences

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 19

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s award-winning series returns with another stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. The unspoken secrets and buried l...

  • The Edge of the Light // Deception Pass

    Whidbey Island - 4

    Seth Darrow is a straightforward guy, and he likes life to be simple. Lately, it’s been anything but. Since his beloved grandfather’s stroke, Seth has been focused on getting Grand home again, before his aunt can take advantage of the situat...

  • The Punishment She Deserves

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 20

    Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in England The cozy, bucolic town ...

  • Something to Hide

    Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers - 21

    Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only...

  • Fisherman's Alibi

    Whidbey Island - 5

    Becca King is now seventeen and has been living with Ralph Darrow, whose health has improved since his stroke. Although he's able to speak and move on his own, he requires help around the house that his grandson, Seth, is sometimes unable to provide....

Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth George

A Great Deliverance
1988 Agatha Award -- First Novel
1989 Anthony Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth George has published 36 books.

Elizabeth George does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fisherman's Alibi, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance, was published in May 1988.

Yes. Elizabeth George has 2 series.
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