Het enige wat Roberta erover zegt, is: 'Ik heb het gedaan. A Great Deliverance Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. LibraryThing Review User Review - TomDonaghey - LibraryThing. And I'm not sorry." A Great Deliverance Elizabeth A. George, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05244-2. A Great Deliverance (1988) (Insp. We also have the mystery that takes a while to unfold. Scotland Yard geeft de leiding van het onderzoek in handen van inspecteur Thomas Lynley en zijn absolute tegenpool Barbara Havers. How anyone in charge thought putting these two together would be a good idea heaven only knows. A local farmer is found decapitated and his dog‘s throat has been slashed.

No current Talk conversations about this book. First published in 1988, A Great Deliverance is the first book in the mystery series featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

The ending shocked me and I loved Lynley for being an avenging angel, at least in words. Barbara is fat, badly dressed, homely and completely lacking any self esteem. In this case, when Roberta Teys is found with her father's severed head in her lap and the weapon that beheaded him near at hand, she quickly becomes the prime suspect in her father's murder. Deliverance by James Dickey was a book that really took me by surprise. Their task is to investigate a horrific murder in Yorkshire where a farmer's daughter has been accused of decapitating her father with an ax, then sitting calmly next to him, guarding his body. Just wow. I would definitely recommend this series if you are a fan of good detective fiction. Lynley #1) by Elizabeth George. We are only getting started. She ran up the slope into her mother's arms, and they entered the house together. Naast haar liggen een bijl en het ontzielde lichaam van haar vader. ). In addition to being a Scotland Yard Inspector, Lynley is the eighth Earl of Asherton, an elegant, aristocratic, former Etonian and Oxford man, well dressed, well educated and well connected. A local farmer is found decapitated and his dog‘s throat has been slashed. Wow. De zestienjarige Roberta Teys wordt met haar mooiste kleren aan gevonden in een boerenschuur in het landelijke Engelse dorpje Keldale. Lynley #1) by Elizabeth George.

I was really great to revisit with my ‘old friends”. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. A Great Deliverance, by Elizabeth George. Onthoofd. Reviews. For Natalie in celebration of the growth of the spirit and the triumph of the soul. To make matters worse she hates Inspector Lynley who was born of nobility and doesn’t need to work but chooses to. The first in a series of almost twenty books, this is a great introduction to the main characters. Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sgt Barbara Havers are sent to investigate. To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. She has a huge chip on her shoulder and it's never been more apparent than with her interaction with Lynley. The first in a series of almost twenty books, this is a great introduction to the main characters. She says she did it and “I’m not sorry”. Ik heb geen spijt.' Lynley felt too distance and Havers started driving me mad with her self-sabotage. I have always loved the character of Inspector Lynley while finding Barbara Havers…his partner, to be a embittered and unhappy woman. 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. 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. More By and About This Author. Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. He is Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of ... Read full review, Yorkshire UK. Village of Kendale. This is the first book in the Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers mystery series. Fiction. And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest and ye are gone away; and what have I more?

I'll probably read a few more in this series to see if it grows on me, but this wasn't really my type of mystery. I found myself getting bored with Inspector Lynley and with Havers. I’m going to read every single one of these novels again and when I’m done I’ll watch the series on DVD….the best of both worlds. So end of mystery right? A Great Deliverance Summary & Study Guide Description. It took me getting to almost 40 percent though before I became seriously engrossed in this one.

iI read this book as well as the entire series over a period of 30 years and loved each and every one of them. The first in a series of almost twenty books, this is a great introduction to the main characters.

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Mystery/Thriller. Now into Keldale's. The characters were engaging, and I think it was more them than the plot that kept me reading, since I was only mildly curious about the resolution. 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. 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. There are so many more of these novels all featuring this unlikely duo. Paperback - 336 pages - 978-0-340-83129-8, Hardcover - 319 pages - 978-0-340-83128-1, Analog Audio Cassette - 978-0-553-52712-4, Library Binding - 505 pages - 978-0-89621-962-5, Mass Market Paperbound - 432 pages - 978-0-553-27802-6, Paperback - 413 pages - 978-0-553-38479-6, Hardcover - 547 pages - 978-1-4104-1223-2, Analog Audio Cassette - 2 pages - 978-0-553-47056-7, Audio book sample courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio, WRITE AWAY: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery. In addition to being a Scotland Yard Inspector, Lynley is the eighth Earl of Asherton, an elegant, aristocratic, former Etonian and Oxford man, well dressed, well educated and well connected. Warning: May contain spoilers. Judges 19:24. It was a solecism of the very worst kind. But the more we get into the case that has them in their grips the more I wanted to keep reading. This study guide contains the following sections:

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. First published in 1988, A Great Deliverance is the first book in the mystery series featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. References to this work on external resources. Village of Kendale. Liked the ... Read full review, Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. and we know that there is more of a story than the one that Havers wants to believe. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Outside of my comfort zone Deliverance tells the story of four men closing in on middle age and looking for a little adventure take to the remote white waster river in the Georgia wilderness with two canoes. The characters we are introduced too had me wanting to know more (Lady Helen, Deborah, St. James, etc.) The twists and turns of the plot are interesting and engaging and on top of that it is a really good read. No way!

A Great Deliverance (1988) (Insp.

Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sgt Barbara Havers are sent to investigate. Lynley #1) by Elizabeth George. To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Liked the ... Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural. So going to say first off that this book starts off slow. Sergeant Barbara Havers, recently demoted because she was unable to work with anyone else, is called back and given one last chance to redeem herself.

By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our, To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. The supposed killer…Roberta Teys, a silent, obese adolescent…gives Lizzie Borden a run for her money here even though she did the job in less than 40 whacks. He is Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of ... Yorkshire UK. Her first and last words were "I did it. Her neighbors, however, don't think that she did it.