Lynley

Matt Roush says...

Elizabeth George’s best-selling mysteries have inspired a second series—the first aired from 2001-2008—with Leo Suter assuming the title role of blue-blooded Detective Inspector Tommy Lynley and Sofia Barclay as his brash, working-class colleague, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Their first meeting is hardly auspicious, but the abrasive Havers knows if she doesn’t play nice this time, she could be out of a job. Their initial case involves a murder on a remote private island, where her impulse to rush to judgment clashes with Lynley’s more cautious approach. “Don’t you just ever go with your gut?” she barks. Her more pressing query, “What is a bloke like you doing in a job like this?” is what has kept people reading George’s books for decades. (Her long-awaited latest, A Slowly Dying Cause, will be released Sept. 23.)

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