


The most recent example: A&E’s airing of the tingly good ”Armadillo,” a high-class thriller drawn from William Boyd’s novel. 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 valleyand in their own lives as well.

Available in used condition with free delivery in the UK. As far as dramas go, A&E long ago outpaced PBS in serving Anglophiles. Buy A Great Deliverance: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 1 By Elizabeth George. In addition to being a Scotland Yard Inspector, Lynley is the eighth Earl of Asherton, an elegant, aristocratic, former Etonian and Oxford man, well dressed, well educated and well connected. In A Great Deliverance Elizabeth George probes the delicate motivations of the heart against a backdrop of buried scandals, unresolved antagonisms and dizzying. Well, to answer my own question, millions of people have gone elsewhere for what used to be considered PBS fare - specifically to cable, where the likes of the History Channel and the National Geographic Channel have usurped genres PBS used to own. First published in 1988, A Great Deliverance is the first book in the mystery series featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. American author George has created a densely populated world of contemporary London crime solvers this tale, based on her 1988 debut novel, introduces us to her two most intriguing characters, New. When they arrive in the seemingly peaceful village of Keldale however, Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers find that not only do they have a murder on their hands, but they find that life in Keldale is not as pleasant as the locals would have them believe.
