Inspector Lynley · Book 1
A Great Deliverance
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780708923030
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Great Deliverance (1988) opens the series at 320 pages, introducing Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, and his prickly working-class partner DS Barbara Havers -- Elizabeth George's dense, doorstop-length approach to British procedural fiction begins here.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
A Great Deliverance is book 1 in the Inspector Lynley series. It is followed by Payment in Blood. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.
Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708923030