How long does it take to read Believing the Lie?
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George takes about 11 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Inspector Lynley series
Previous: This Body of Death Next: Just One Evil Act
About 11 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 622 pages, about 171,050 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect, Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict, leads her to Nicholas' wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.
Subjects: Women detectives, Police, Barbara Havers (Fictitious character), Fiction, Private investigators, fiction, England, fiction
