A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004DEPHXE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 459 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cynthia H. Grossman said A GREAT DELIVERANCE, Elizabeth George. A GREAT DELIVERANCE, Elizabeth George, 1988In the first of the Inspector Lynley mystery books, we meet Inspector Thomas Lynley (an English Earl who works with Scotland Yard), Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Simon Allcourt-St. James (an independent forensic scientist), Lady Helen Clyde (assistant to St. James), and Deborah St. James (recently married to Simon St. James) and a few other people who will appear in later books.In this story, William Tey . xz87zg said Send in an Editor. The book is very good, but the conversion to Kindle leaves something to be desired. It looks like they scanned the print version, but did a sloppy job of finding and correcting the scanner errors. Some are annoying and/or funny, but at least one changed the meaning. You don't need a brilliant editor, but you DO need one to eliminate such gaffes.. Jeannette said Great Delivery. Elizabeth George is Great writer. There are editing issues and I don't think the errors are in the printed editions of this same book. That might be on the transcription, GOOGLE maybe? The story was perfectly written and very engaging . The plot kept me guessing until the end and the ending was gratifying. Read it.
Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry."Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil En
The legendharking back to violent events in Cromwell's timethat surrounds local Keldale Abbey pales in comparison to a modern-day crime committed in this quiet corner of Yorkshire, England: Roberta Teys, a silent, obese adolescent, is accused of killing her church-going father with an axe. The detectives sent by Scotland Yard to investigate are a mismatched pair. 35,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. From Publishers Weekly In her debut novel, George too often plays to the gallery with characterizations broad enough to border on caricature. In siftin