Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Great Deliverance
Murder has stunned the peaceful Yorkshire countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, beside her father’s headless corpse.
Murder has stunned the peaceful Yorkshire countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, beside her father’s headless corpse.
Detective Stella Mooney circles the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town with her personal life also going awry. Nightmares, too much vodka, and an attraction to another man contributes to her life falling apart,
A black panther, a giant wolf dog and a beautiful woman with a rattlesnake tattoo. Buck McDivit must deal with all this and more when a wealthy rancher hires him to investigate murder, oil and cattle theft, and a pagan commune populated only by women.
Faith Fairchild is hard hit when a friend dies and her own home is stripped of all their most precious possessions. Devastated, furious, Faith takes action.
The corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain closes in on the newly wed Gaius Petreius Ruso.
Constable Evan Evans finds his everyday routine turned upside down by the return of a prodigal son with plans to build a tourist attraction.
A dead body wrapped in a quilt raises a lot of questions when Pix Miller shows up to check on the progress of the Fairchilds’ cottage.
Dr. Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts and ruin her personally and professionally.
On the way to beg a Druid clan to allow for a Christian church and school, the come across a massacre – 36 young men covered in pagan ritual scars.
Gaius Petreius Ruso has volunteered for a posting with the army even deeper into Britannia. Only it’s in Tilla’s homeland where her people are implicated in a grisly murder.