num_pages: 413
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Great Deliverance
titlecomplete: A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley #1)
characters: Deborah St. James, Simon St. James, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Thomas Lynley
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 48318
places: United Kingdom, Yorkshire, England
series: Inspector Lynley
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Bantam