Elizabeth George
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Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is the American author of a number of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels featuring 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, the first of the Lynley novels. The novels feature Thomas Lynley lord Asherton, a Scotland Yard inspector and of noble birth, Barbara Havers, Lynley's assistant, from a very working-class environment, Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife, of noble birth as well, and Lynley's friends Simon and Deborah St. James.
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- 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)
- 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)
