A Great Deliverance

US: Random House Publishing Grou, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 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 Yor kshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hid den to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotl and Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with t he redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to s olve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, un lovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, se ated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first a nd 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.