A Great Deliverance

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New English Library, 2003 - Detective and mystery stories - 332 pages

Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more.

Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the fa ade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.

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About the author (2003)

Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. She won the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litt rature Polici re in France. In 1990 she was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI. Her novels have now been adapted for television by the BBC. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as a New York Times and international bestselling author, Elizabeth George divides her time between Washington and Kensington, London.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Great Deliverance
Fiction. Crime
Volume 1 of Inspector Lynley mystery, Elizabeth George
New English library
Volume 1 of Thomas Lynley series, Elizabeth George
AuthorElizabeth George
Editionreprint
PublisherNew English Library, 2003
ISBN0340831294, 9780340831298
Length332 pages
  
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