
Category: Adults, Crime, Mystery
Language: EnglishKeywords: A Great Deliverance A Payment in Blood A Place of Hiding A Suitable Vengeance A Traitor to Memory Careless in Red Crime Deception on His Mind For the Sake of Elena In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner In the Presence of the Enemy Inspector Lynley Missing Joseph Mystery Playing for the Ashes This Body of Death Thriller Well-Schooled in Murder What Came Before He Shot Her With No one as a Witness
Written by Elizabeth George
Format: MP3
Unabridged
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.