The first novel in the best-selling Inspector Lynley mystery series
From the bestselling series that inspired BBC's Lynley, discover how it all began . . .
Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap.
"I did it. And I am not sorry." She refuses to say more.
Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate.
But as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the façade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.
Praise for A Great Deliverance:
'Ambitious and exotic . . . The climax is startling and disturbing . . . An exciting debut'
The Times
'An awesome first-fiction venture that immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James' dark orbit'
Kirkus
'With a lyric sense of language and a cinematic eye for detail, George has constructed a truly fascinating story'
Chicago Sun-Times
Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up
