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A Great Deliverance

By: Elizabeth George
Narrated by: Donada Peters
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Summary
 The investigation of a vicious murder exposes a quiet community’s sinister web of secrets—the “spellbinding” (Chicago Sun-Times) first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series

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“Pure entertainment from its insidious beginning to its gripping end.”—The Washington Post Book World

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. Mystery Police Procedurals Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives
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Reviews

“Elizabeth George reigns as a queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly

“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

“Exceptionally assured and impressive . . . highly entertaining.”—Newsweek

“Awesome . . . immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James’ dark orbit.”—Kirkus Reviews
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The story was captivating but though the narration was competent I didn't like the style of Ms. Peters at all, nor her voice that I felt was shrill and harsh. I much preferred the Vance narration of The Punishment She Deserves. I will avoid Peters narrations in the future though I am interested in hearing more books by Elizabeth George.

Captivating story but disappointing narration

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Very bad recording of an amazing book, had to return it it was impossible to listen without having a headache start

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