Russell's ebook Library
1 - A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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...
2 - Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 ...
3 - Well-Schooled in Murder
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [3]: When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately 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 al...
4 - A Suitable Vengeance
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [4]: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fasci...
5 - For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 embitte...
6 - Missing Joseph
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [6]: Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage.But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they ...
7 - Playing for the Ashes
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [7]: "The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."In her astonishing New York Tim...
8 - In the Presence of the Enemy
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 disco...
9 - Deception on His Mind
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [9]: Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites.Working solo, without her lon...
10 - In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 t...
11 - A Traitor to Memory
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 question...
12 - A Place of Hiding
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [12]: In one of her most compelling mysteries, bestselling novelist Elizabeth George explores the darker landscapes of human relationships. Here she tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, l...
13 - With No One as Witness
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [13]: The 13th novel in Elizabeth George’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Inspector Linley crime fiction series, With No One as Witness is arguably the most riveting, shocking, and emotionally compelling of the lot.The hunt fo...
14 - What Came Before He Shot Her
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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? Wher...
15 - Careless in Red
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 ru...
16 - This Body of Death
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [16]: While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle th...
17 - Believing the Lie
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [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 ...
18 - Just One Evil Act
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [18]: Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim.Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he...
19 - A Banquet of Consequences
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [19]: Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.The ...
20 - The Punishment She Deserves
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [20]: When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in ...
