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Loading... A Great Deliverance (1988)by Elizabeth George
Despite a couple places that I truly liked in this book, I mostly hated it. Havers is a bitch. Lynley is either pathetic and self-absorbed or suddenly compassionate with strangers. The entire book felt overwrought, unecessarily shrouded, and agressively unkind...if not hateful. I've been told the series gets better; but I don't think I have the stomach for it. (  ) lesmel | May 19, 2013 |  I guess if you like mysteries, this might be a winner. A friend lent me this book and honestly, I didn't finish it. The story follows a dreary police woman and her dreary life. The whole tone of the book disagreed with my sentiments. It is just so dreary. (  ) Maryk205 | May 4, 2013 | Giallo molto concentrato nel delineare la psicologia dei vari personaggi, sia gli indiziati che i poliziotti. In un paesino della campagna inglese un uomo viene decapitato, sulla scena solo la figlia, impazzita dopo l'accaduto. L'ispettore Lynley inizierà a cercare il colpevole e dovrà scavare tra quello che si dice, e il molto tenuto nascosto, tra gli abitanti del paese. Visti i personaggi e l'ambientazione avevo intuito dove si sarebbe andati a finire, ma nel complesso una lettura avvincente. ( ) Saretta.L | Mar 31, 2013 | My blog post about this book is at this link . (  ) SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 | Very well writtten. The first of Inspector Lynley. The direction the book took was not what I expected and though some of the story was difficult for me to read it was a good book. (  ) i.should.b.reading | Mar 29, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553384791, Paperback)To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. 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 English valley—and in their own lives as well. From the Paperback edition. (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:12:46 -0500) Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, a frightened Yorkshire villager smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey while hiding from Cromwell's raiders. Now Lynley and Havers are sent to Kendale to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peacful countryside.… (more) |
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