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.
Key facts about A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George wrote A Great Deliverance, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1988. The book has 320 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708923030 to find the main one.
A Great Deliverance is book 1 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 September 2025.
Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest published Elizabeth George book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George is an American author best known for the Inspector Thomas Lynley series of British crime novels, an unusual case of an American writer working almost entirely within English settings and class dynamics. See every Elizabeth George book in order.
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