A review by retiredlibrarylady
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George

4.0

This reminded me of trying to read the Narnia series in order; you actually have to read a later one first to make chronological sense of the series. This should come first, because the action in the book comes before the first three; the subsequent ones follow what is the third book.
This fills in the story of Lynley, St.James, Deborah, and Lady Helen, but it actually goes back in time. We have no Havers, and no Nkata (he only appears briefly in books 1 and 2). The story is set in Cornwall, mostly in Lynley's family estate. Lots of murder but no Scotland Yard. We learn a lot of Lynley's backstory and how Deborah ends up with Simon.