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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: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 we… (más)
floja, por ser a primera de la serie vamos a darle otra chance. Como no se me ocurrió buscar una pareja despareja de policías un aristócrata inglés y una chica de origen obrero. El crimen de una sordidez impresionante ( )
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And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest and ye are gone away; and what have I more? Judges 19:24
Dedicatoria
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For Natalie in celebration of the growth of the spirit and the triumph of the soul.
Primeras palabras
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It was a solecism of the very worst kind.
Citas
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"The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Easter bride, In flow'r of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair." -John Dryden, Alexander's Feast;or, The Power of Music
"One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke." - William Shakespeare, Pericles
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She ran up the slope into her mother's arms, and they entered the house together.
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: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 we
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