This is an article about the American detective novelist Elizabeth George. For the Christian writer see Elizabeth George (Christian author).
Susan Elizabeth George (born 26 February 1949) is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels, featuring her character Inspector Lynley, have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
She was born in Warren, Ohio, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was eighteen months old. She was a student of English, receiving a teaching certificate. While teaching English in the public school system, she completed an advanced degree in psychology.
Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance in 1988, featuring Thomas Lynley, Lord Asherton, a Scotland Yard inspector of noble birth; Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley's partner, from a very working-class background; Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife, of noble birth as well; and Lynley's friends Simon and Deborah St. James.
Bibliography
- A Great Deliverance (1988; ISBN 0-553-27802-9)
- Payment In Blood (1989; ISBN 0-553-28436-3)
- Well-Schooled in Murder (1990; ISBN 0-553-28734-6)
- A Suitable Vengeance (1991; ISBN 0-553-29560-8)
- For The Sake Of Elena (1992; ISBN 0-553-56127-8)
- Missing Joseph (1992; ISBN 0-553-56604-0)
- Playing For The Ashes (1993; ISBN 0-553-57251-2)
- In The Presence Of The Enemy (1996; ISBN 0-553-57608-9)
- Deception On His Mind (1997; ISBN 0-553-57509-0)
- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1999; ISBN 0-553-57510-4)
- A Traitor to Memory (2001; ISBN 0-553-58236-4)
- "I, Richard" (2002; ISBN 0-553-38242-X) [Does not feature Inspector Lynley]
- A Place of Hiding (2003; ISBN 0-553-58237-2)
- With No One As Witness (2005; ISBN 0-06-054561-5)
- What Came Before He Shot Her (2006; ISBN 0-06-054562-3)
- Careless in Red (2008; ISBN 978-0-06-116087-5)
- The Evidence Exposed short story collection; The Evidence Exposed (1990), The Surprise of His Life (1996), I, Richard (1999) (1999; ISBN 0-340-75062-6)
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