Inspector Lynley A Great Deliverance, Book 1, (Paperback)

from tloeffler

This is the first book in the Inspector Lynley/Sergeant Havers mysteries. I have watched the PBS series for years and loved it, so this was a natural progression. Tommy Lynley is a wealthy young man who works as a police inspector because he wants to. Barbara Havers is a sergeant from a lower cla...

from cyderry

Roberta Teys is found sitting in the barn over the headless body of her father and she freely admits "I did it. I'm not sorry." But the residents of the small village cannot believe that Roberta could possibly do such a thing and so Scotland Yard is brought in to determine if Roberta really is th...

from Kasthu

A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George's first novel, introduces its reader to Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers, two London detectives who couldn't be more different. Lynley is Lord Peter Wimsey type, while Barbara Havers is brusque, angry at the hand life has given her. But the two are thrown tog...

from ElizaJane

A very overweight 19-year-old is discovered in her family's barn along with her dead dog and her dead father who has been decapitated with an ax. Lynley is assigned to the case and he has been partnered with Havers as a last ditch effort for her to try detective work. This was an incredible myste...

from Olivermagnus

First published in 1988, A Great Deliverance is the first book in the mystery series featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. In addition to being a Scotland Yard Inspector, Lynley is the eighth Earl of Asherton, an elegant, aristocratic, former Etonian and Oxford ...