Two detectives, upper-crust Thomas Lynley and working-class Barbara Havers, are sent by Scotland Yard to Yorkshire to investigate a teenager who supposedly killed her father with an axe. The more they investigate the crime, however, the more lies and secrets they uncover about t…
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, a frightened Yorkshire villager smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey while hiding from Cromwell's raiders. Now Lynley and Havers are sent to Keldale to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
The quiet life of the Yorkshire countryside is shattered by a brutal murder and the shocking revelations unearthed by Scotland Yard investigators Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynsley.
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley has arrived in Keldale to investigate the case of fat, unlovely Roberta Teys who was found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.
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 i…
When a savage murder stuns the peaceful countryside of Scotland, Inspector Thomas Lynley is called in to solve the crime, but before he can do that he must find his way through the town's web of lies and secrets.
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the death of a vicar and the mysterious woman who met him on the night he died.
"Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead--a victim of accidental pois…