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A baby's cry echoes on lonely nights through Keldale Valley in Yorkshire. Three hundred years ago, when Cromwell's raiders swept through a village in this valley, not a living creature was to be found on its fog-shrouded streets. The entire population had taken refuge in Keldale Abbey. But then, as the legend goes, an infant began to cry-and the villages knew they had escaped Cromwell's ravages only to be betrayed by a babe. So they smothered the child to silence it.
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys.
Now, into this pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes New Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley. Accompanied by Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a particularly savage murder which has stunned the peaceful countryside.
Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found, clad in her best silk dress, seated in the great stone barn beside her father's decapitated corpse. Her first and only words were: "I did it. I'm not sorry." She has refused to speak since. The priest who found young Roberta insists the girl is innocent. The villagers, who have known the girl all of her life, concur. The local police, however, maintain that she's guilty of the brutal slaying of one of the region's most respected citizens.
As Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of scandals, they uncover a series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley-and in their own lives as well.
In A Great Deliverance Elizabeth George probes the delicate motivations of the heart against a backdrop of buried scandals, unresolved antagonisms and dizzying ambiguities. It was her debut novel, the winner of the Agatha and Anthony Awards for best first novel as well as France's Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. It was nominated for both a Macavity and an Edgar. It has been optioned for television by the BBC.
Praise for Elizabeth George's "A Great
Deliverance!"
"Pure entertainment from its insidious beginning to its gripping end."
--The Washington Post Book World
"With a lyric sense of language and a cinematic eye for detail, George has constructed a truly fascination story."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Ambitious and exotic…The climax is startling and disturbing…An exciting debut."
--The Times, London
"This is about as satisfying as murder mysteries come."
--Daily News, New York
"An astounding first novel...Lynley seems certain to become, in future volumes, one of the great characters of crime fiction."
--The Toronto Star
"Exceptionally assured and impressive…highly entertaining."
--Newsweek
"George is the most exciting new talent to debut in years, a born storyteller who spins a web of enchantment that captures the reader and will not let him go."
--The San Diego Union
"This is a first novel of extraordinary scope and power and a stunning debut for a writer from whom we'll surely hear more."
--The Denver Post
"A Great Deliverance works beautifully on many levels…This is a big book, long and rich in characterization."
--Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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