# A Great Deliverance

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- Book: [A Great Deliverance](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-george/a-great-deliverance) ([A Great Deliverance.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-george/a-great-deliverance.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth George](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-george)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-268-4
- Published: 2011-07-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

From the bestselling series that inspired BBC's Lynley, discover how it all began . . . Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. " I did it. And I am not sorry." She refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate. But as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the façade of the peaceful Yorkshire village. Praise for A Great Deliverance: 'Ambitious and exotic . . . The climax is startling and disturbing . . . An exciting debut' The Times 'An awesome first-fiction venture that immediately thrusts the author into P. D. James' dark orbit' Kirkus 'With a lyric sense of language and a cinematic eye for detail, George has constructed a truly fascinating story' Chicago Sun-Times