Elizabeth George
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 413 pages Rating: 4.05 | 37056 Users | 1743 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley #1) |
| Author | : | Elizabeth George |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 413 pages |
| Published | : | June 1989 by Bantam Books (first published May 1988) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller |
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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.
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| Original Title: | A Great Deliverance |
| ISBN: | 0553278029 (ISBN13: 9780553278026) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector Lynley #1 |
| Characters: | Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Simon St. James, Deborah St. James |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award for Best First Novel (1989), Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (1990), Agatha Award for Best First Novel (1988), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1989) |
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First the superficial. I'm having a hard time getting over how annoying a couple of the characters were. The horribly caricatured American tourist was too much - I ended up skipping any passage with him. And felt he was completely unnecessary to the plot. It's difficult to enjoy a book when you have such antipathy to ridiculous characters. I did like Lynley, but his partner... I'm sure that she will get better as the series progresses, but did she really have to shriek and shrill so much? AndAs exhausted as I am, Elizabeth George has managed to hold my attention into the wee hours of the morning. That, in itself, says something.I was surprised to learn, after finishing this book, that the author is American. I have read a great deal of British Mysteries, and I have to say she does it well. I learned this about her after reading the book, because I never read the inside cover or back of a book until I have finished. I don't like to start out with pre-conceptions. I like to be
This is a series I have been meaning to start for ages and I am so glad I have got around to it at last! This book is great! It has everything I like in a mystery.1. A really attractive, talented, charismatic main character who knows exactly what he is doing. And so far he does not appear to be an alcoholic or have any other unappealing trait as most MCs in crime books do these days. (although as this book was written in 1988 nearly everyone smokes all the time)2. Due also to the date it was
This is a novel that had been sitting on my tbr list for some time. Though the idea of picking it up really peaked my interest, I think the fact that a number of books in the series are quite long put me off. Since Im retired, I finally figured if I was ever going to read long books, nows the time. This is a terrific British tale, surprisingly written by an American author. Elizabeth George is a wonderful writer. Her prose is reminiscent of old-time British writing, though not as stilted. Every
This is a series I have been meaning to start for ages and I am so glad I have got around to it at last! This book is great! It has everything I like in a mystery.1. A really attractive, talented, charismatic main character who knows exactly what he is doing. And so far he does not appear to be an alcoholic or have any other unappealing trait as most MCs in crime books do these days. (although as this book was written in 1988 nearly everyone smokes all the time)2. Due also to the date it was
Goodness Gracious, I love this series. Elizabeth George is, in my opinion, the best mystery writer alive today. The ending hits you like a slap and yet you're left wondering how in the world you never saw it coming. Of course THAT was what was happening! But Elizabeth George is a master manipulator and character constructor. There are few characters in literature I enjoy more than Barbara Havers and Sir Thomas Lynley. The ins and outs of their relationship over the course of this series is
For me, the author's Inspector Lynley series checks all the boxes why I give "modern" detective fiction a wide berth.1) useless, mind-numbingly boring navel-gazing of the detectives for 290 pages out of 400 - CHECK2) (as a consequence of 1) story moving at a drunken snail's pace - CHECK3) (as a consequence of 1 & 2) there's hardly any info about the ongoing investigation - CHECK4) (as a consequence of 1 & 3) almost non-existent police procedurals - CHECKPersonally, I also could not find
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