Another paperback, first published in 1988, but one I did not read until March 2017, 413 pages large print. Another one I hated to put down. With the same characters of Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, this mystery winds through the Keldale countryside, the old Keldale Abbey where in the past Yorkshire villagers had hidden to escape Cromwell's ravages. There is a legend about the crying baby that will be repeated by locals. This mystery is a bit different and touches on years of child abuse. It is sickening at times, but nonetheless a great read. 5*****
http://www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com/books/a_great_deliverance.htm
The author's website contains a far superior synopsis to the book than I could manage to write. "A baby's cry echoes on lonely nights through alley in Yorkshire. Three hundred
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