A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)

by Elizabeth George

Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found in a barn, an axe in her lap, beside her father's corpse. She confesses her guilt, but the parish priest insists she is innocent. When Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate, they uncover a series of shocking revelations.

• ISBN10: 0593015290
• ISBN13: 9780593015292
• Publish Date: 19 January 1989
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 October 2007
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

I've read a few of the books and seen a lot of the TV series so I thought I'd read more of the books.
This is where Lynley and Havers team up. She has a chip on her shoulder about him because he's wealthy and it appears he's bought his way to where he is and she's also had to fight traditional male dominance in her post. Lynley also has a reputation for being a bit of a ladies man.

They're teamed up to investigate a murder of a man whose daughter was found with the murder weapon, an axe in hand, but the why is important to discover. I got the why pretty early in the story for myself, it was following the developing relationship between Havers and Lynley that really caught my interest. A good read, but there were moments that fell a bit flat.