Inspector Lynley

I read mystery series in order usually, but I jumped ahead in Elizabeth George's series on Inspector Lynley and read A Suitable Vengeance. I was surprised it was a look at the past, the beginning of the romance between Deborah Cotter and Thomas Lynley. The story has Inspector Lynley bringing his fiance back to Cornwall to announce his engagement. Long time friends and some employed on his family estate get involved in a murder of a local journalist. Inspector Lynley does his investigating with his long-time friend Simom St. James, the forensic scientist. A very good read and a basic background to Inspector Lynley's romantic background. Then I read Well-Schooled in Murder, no. 3 in the series. Lynley gets caught up in a disappearance of a student at a prep school where on of his former Eton chums is now a teacher. It becomes clear that the boy disappeared at the school and the body was dumped at the village churchyard. A sad story, but the sequence is in timing with Payment in Blood. I like the background stories of these well written mysteries as well as the mystery itself. I am looking forward to continuing the series.