Of course, this isn't the first time we have seen Lynley and Havers on screen - another BBC series, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, brought the characters to life in the 2000s, with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small in the central roles.
Read on for everything you need to know about how to read the Inspector Lynley novels in order.
Is Lynley based on a series of books?
The first book was published in 1988 and the series is still going to this day. It is written by Elizabeth George, an American author who is a noted Anglophile.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com ahead of its premiere, Suter and his co-star Sofia Barclay said that it was important for them to honour the literary roots and previous adaptations while also putting their own stamp on the Lynley universe.
"If you try to imitate what was so brilliant before, you’ll fail. Inevitably, you have to do your own thing and trust your instincts, so I actually felt quite calm early on about doing that."
Suter said: "I remember early on reading our script and thinking, ‘This is very different,’ and realising that ours is based on different books."
How many books are there in the Inspector Lynley series?
Here's the full list of Inspector Lynley novels in order.
A Great Deliverance (1988)Payment in Blood (1989)Well-Schooled in Murder (1990)A Suitable Vengeance (1991)For the Sake of Elena (1992)Missing Joseph (1992)Playing for the Ashes (1993)In the Presence of the Enemy (1996)Deception on His Mind (1997)In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1999)A Traitor to Memory (2001)A Place of Hiding (2003)With No One as Witness (2005)What Came Before He Shot Her (2006)Careless in Red (2008)This Body of Death (2010)Believing the Lie (2012)Just One Evil Act (2013)A Banquet of Consequences (2015)The Punishment She Deserves (2018)Something to Hide (2022)A Slowly Dying Cause (2025)The first season of Lynley adapts four of them, but in a very different order than they were originally released. The first episode is based on book 12, the second on book 16, the third on book 15 and the fourth on book 13.
Will the BBC series adapt more of the books?
Whether the drama is renewed for season 2 will likely depend on viewership, both in the UK on BBC One and in the US on BritBox, where the series debuted in September of last year.
Lynley will premiere on BBC One on Monday 5th January at 8:30pm, while all four episodes are available to stream now on BBC iPlayer.
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