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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
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 ax 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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Critic reviews
"Spellbinding...a truly fascinating story that is part psychological suspense and part detective story." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Pure entertainment from its insidious beginning to its gripping end." (The Washington Post Book World)
"Awesome...immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James' dark orbit." (Kirkus Reviews)
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- Mr H
- 26-09-24
A riveting story. Crucial that you listen to the final minute.
The complex relationships can be a challenge, but the storyline is such that it draws you in again and again.
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- ruthieB
- 10-04-24
Much better than the TV series
I revisited this book recently, Good story, builds up the atmosphere, but a bit dated.
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- Miss S. D. Joyce
- 28-01-24
lack of focus on the plot
misogynistic, classiest, not much else to say. I only listened to five chapters. Not like the ITV series at all
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- Ms. E. Morgan
- 06-08-23
Good detective story but very harrowing
Trigger warning child sexual abuse.
The detective element and relationship between the two police officers was excellent but the subject matter was too awful for me.
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- AnnaAlcott
- 27-03-24
couldn't listen
I am sorry but I couldn't stand the reader and couldn't get past the first couple of chapters
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