A Great Deliverance
On sale
21st July 2011
Price: £9.99
Agatha Award, 1998
Genre
From the bestselling series that inspired BBC’s Lynley, discover how it all began . . .
Roberta Teys is found beside her father’s headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap.
“I did it. And I am not sorry.” She refuses to say more.
Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate.
But 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 façade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.
Praise for A Great Deliverance:
‘Ambitious and exotic . . . The climax is startling and disturbing . . . An exciting debut’
The Times
‘An awesome first-fiction venture that immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James’ dark orbit’
Kirkus
‘With a lyric sense of language and a cinematic eye for detail, George has constructed a truly fascinating story’
Chicago Sun-Times
Roberta Teys is found beside her father’s headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap.
“I did it. And I am not sorry.” She refuses to say more.
Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate.
But 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 façade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.
Praise for A Great Deliverance:
‘Ambitious and exotic . . . The climax is startling and disturbing . . . An exciting debut’
The Times
‘An awesome first-fiction venture that immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James’ dark orbit’
Kirkus
‘With a lyric sense of language and a cinematic eye for detail, George has constructed a truly fascinating story’
Chicago Sun-Times
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Reviews
(TV series) 'suspense aplenty . . . in this above-average whodunit.'
A dauntingly clever chiller
Excellent . . . An exciting debut
Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up
PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH GEORGE
A master of the English mystery
Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published
George is a master . . . She upholds the English tradition beautifully
A fascinating list of subjects . . . Wrenching stories . . . George conveys them all with exceptional grace
It's tough to resist George's storytelling, once hooked
