In Love with Detective Lynley?

How did this happen?

I’m a reader — always have been always will be. In fact I’ve already read 22 books this year.

I’m not a big fan of the “normal” TV shows. Except for my guilty pleasure, General Hospital, that I started watching when Jessie Brewer was the Head Nurse and I was in high school.

But as a die-hard anglophile, I’ve read British mysteries for years and finally decided that since they don’t all get to PBS, I should get BritBox.

I binged through many episodes of Vera, the show from Anne Cleeves’ great Vera Stanhope mysteries. I love the idea of an older, chubby woman as the lead in a show — and in her life.

And then I sailed through another Cleeves series that I’d also read, Shetland. I noted quickly that Daniel Hershell, the lead, looked familiar —a resemblance to a former boyfriend.

And scrolling through the list of mysteries available, I came to the ones from Elizabeth George’s series about the professional and…