Something to Hide

Name: Something to Hide
Rating: 4.29 (17760 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth George

Inspector Lynley • Book 21

by Elizabeth George

Narrated by Simon Vance

4.29 ABR Score (17.8K ratings)

★ 4.16 Goodreads (16.5K) ★ 4.57 Audible (1.2K)

21h 28m Released 2022 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Twenty-one books in and Elizabeth George still finds ways to make you dread turning the last page.

Great if you want: long-form procedural crime with deep character investment
Listening experience: dense and slow-burning — rewards patience over 21+ hours
Narration: Vance has owned this series for years; he's irreplaceable here
Skip if: you're new to Lynley — start earlier in the series

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About This Audiobook

Something to Hide, the twenty-first Inspector Lynley novel, centers on the murder of a detective who was investigating female genital mutilation within North London's Nigerian community. Elizabeth George enters territory that demands cultural specificity and moral clarity simultaneously — the need to protect communities from persecution while investigating crimes committed within those communities. Lynley, Havers, and Nkata navigate this with the procedural rigor and the personal cost that have defined the series across its twenty-year run.

Simon Vance's narration is the defining voice of the Lynley series in audio — authoritative, tonally precise, and capable of carrying the novel's shifts between the institutional and the personal. At just over twenty-one hours it is among the most substantial entries in the series, and Vance's sustained performance honors George's ambitious construction.