A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George

A Great Deliverance A very easy read based on the Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers characters that are based at Scotland Yard. It is another crime investigation story. They discovered a body of a girl or you can say a young woman of 19 years who had her Sunday best clothes on and in her lap was an axe in an old stone barn in a small village of Keldale. Near by was an headless corpse of a man who was her father and all she could say for the first few weeks was" I killed him and do not have any regrets and I am not sorry that I have done it" So then Inspector Thomas Lynley comes on to the scene with also the ...  Read the complete review

Introduction This is the first in the Inspector Lynley series, and describes how Lynley and Sergeant Havers meet. Strangely though, 'A Suitable Vengeance', which is the fourth in the series, goes back to the period before 'A Great Deliverance' and describes the early relationship between Lynley and his friends, St James, Deborah and Helen and in a way is a better place to start than this book. Unfortunately, 'A Suitable Vengeance' does not feature Havers and I love the somewhat rocky relationship between Lynley and Havers, so inaccurately described in the television series. The author As Elizabeth George's first novel, this book met with great ...  Read the complete review