Deception on His Mind

Deception on His Mind

Book #9 in the Inspector Lynley series

by Elizabeth George

(published 1997)

Buy from

Amazon comAmazon uk

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases


The case Barbara starts working on has ties into the Asian community of a certain town where the leaders have a very complicated relationship with the rest of the community and an even more troublesome and infected one with the local authorities.

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, a Pakistani named Haytham Querashi, is found dead near its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites.

And working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people pay for deceiving others…and themselves.