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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.
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Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard, who first appeared in "A Great Deliverance", investigates the murder of a playwright at a Scottish country house hotel, where the members of a West End theatre company have assembled for the first reading of a controversial new play.
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“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school
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Thomas Lynley mysteries volume 5
Inspector Lynley novel volume 04
Inspector Lynley novel volume 05
Inspector Lynley
Inspector Lynley novel volume 04
Inspector Lynley novel volume 05
Inspector Lynley
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The fog lifts over the green hills of Cambridge, revealing the lifeless body of a prominent professor's daughter, a young woman admired for being fun-loving, popular, daring, and deaf. The mystery is far from academic as Lynley and Havers discover fatal twists that sealed the fate of one dysfunctional family.
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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon...
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When country milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one fine spring morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage's seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten, not the ugly remains of a fire pointing to murder. A burnt-out chair, a peculiar pattern of soot on the walls, an asphyxiated corpse, two footprints, and a collection of discarded cigarette butts bring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his...
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Thomas Lynley mysteries volume 8
Inspector Lynley novel volume 07
Inspector Lynley Mystery; bk 08
Inspector Lynley novel volume 08
Inspector Lynley novel volume 07
Inspector Lynley Mystery; bk 08
Inspector Lynley novel volume 08
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In London, a woman parliamentarian's daughter is kidnapped and a newspaper editor with whom the parliamentarian had an affair receives a call, threatening the girl's life unless he admits paternity. Inspector Lynley suspects the girl is behind it.
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Balford-Le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. When a member of its small Asian community is found dead, Sergeant Barbara Havers finds she must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the price people pay for deceiving others and themselves.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 1
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Life in the peaceful Yorkshire village of Keldale is turned upside down when the local priest, Father Hart, stumbles upon a gruesome murder. Local farmer, William Tey, has been decapitated in his barn. His obese 16- year-old daughter, Roberta, is found next to her father's body in a severely traumatized state.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 2
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Lynley and Havers question Tessa, who paints a disturbing picture of life with William. To fill in the missing pieces, Lynley and Havers begin to search for Roberta's sister, Gillian. Strangely, opinions about her vary dramatically from one person to the next.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 5
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Lynley and Havers investigate the murder of a stunning young deaf Cambridge University student who was bludgeoned to death.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 4
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An avant-garde play is being read and during the reading, the playwright is murdered. However, the murder is not as easily solved as one might think.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 3
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When an old school friend contacts Lynley about a missing schoolboy, the inspector soon finds himself launching a murder inquiry.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 6
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Lynley and Havers are called to a tranquil Lancashire village to investigate the poisoning of the vicar, Robin Sage.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 3
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When Lynley returns to his ancestral estate in Cornwall to celebrate his recent engagement to Helen, a brutal murder on the grounds sheds new light on the Inspector and his surprisingly dysfunctional family.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 4
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Lynley is honeymooning in Mexico when the body of a young Asian man is found on a secluded promontory, which provokes subsequent heated demonstrations about racist policing.
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries volume 1
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The body of cricket star, Kenneth Fleming, is found in a burnt out house and seems to be the victim of an arson attack. It emerges that Kenneth has three women in his life - his lifelong patron and mentor, Miriam Whitelaw, his married lover, Gabriella Patten and his childhood sweetheart and devoted wife Jeannie.
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