Author: Elizabeth George Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners, Thriller, Suspense, Detective
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ISBNs: 9780553278026 9780553384796 0553278029 0553384791 |
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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.
This book is part of the "Inspector Lynley" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Just One Evil Act" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "This Body of Death" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Careless in Red" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Place of Hiding" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Traitor to Memory" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Missing Joseph" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Suitable Vengeance" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Payment in Blood" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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