Deborah Crombie, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-80141-4
Crombie's English procedural series featuring Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James (Mourn Not Your Dead, 1996, etc.) takes a giant leap forward with this haunting mystery set among Cambridge literary types. Vic McClellan, Duncan's ex-wife...
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Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-227163-1
Det. Supt. Duncan Kincaid is still smarting from an unexplained reassignment and demotion, in bestseller Crombie’s absorbing 17th novel featuring Kincaid and his wife, Det. Insp. Gemma James (after 2014’s To Dwell in Darkness). He’s also troubled by
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Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-199063-2
Bestseller Crombie puts together past and present in her solid, finely controlled 15th novel featuring married police detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid (after 2012’s No Mark upon Her). While Duncan looks after their three-year-old foster...
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Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-199061-8
Macavity Award–winner Crombie examines the corrupting nature of power in her riveting 14th novel featuring Scotland Yard Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Det. Insp. Gemma James (after 2009’s Necessary as Blood). When Rebecca Meredith, a detective chief...
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Deborah Crombie, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-80131-5
Sergeant Gemma James and Superintendent Duncan Kincaid reappear (after All Shall Be Well) in this finely tuned procedural that moves between the tidy village of Holmbury St. Mary and the gritty streets of London. Alastair Gilbert, a high-ranking...
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Deborah Crombie, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (253p) ISBN 978-0-684-19770-8
Crombie's Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant Gemma Jones make a welcome return, after All Shall Be Well, to investigate a suspicious drowning in the countryside outside London. The seemingly placid domestic life of...
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Deborah Crombie, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19527-8
This polished mystery seems more the work of a seasoned genre master than the first novel it is. Det. Supt. Duncan Kincaid, spending his vacation from Scotland Yard at a Yorkshire time-share along with several other guests, finds his holiday...
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Deborah Crombie, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-10943-6
Scotland Yard detectives Sergeant Gemma James and Superintendent Duncan Kincaid (Dreaming of the Bones, etc.) return to solve a murder committed in the East End of London. On the Isle of Dogs in the Docklands area, a young woman is found dead. Oddly,
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This seventh mystery featuring Scotland Yard detectives and lovers Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jones, a finely nuanced novel replete with multilayered characters and a rare narrative patience, shows Crombie at the top of her form after the relatively...
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Deborah Crombie, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19654-1
Written with compassion, clarity, wit and precision, this graceful mystery amply fulfills the promise of Crombie's debut novel, A Share in Death. ``Morphine coats the mind like peach fuzz,'' thinks Jasmine Dent, a 50-year-old spinster born in India...
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Morrow $24.99 (378p) ISBN 978-0-06-128753-4
Romance dominates Crombie's 13th contemporary procedural featuring Scotland Yarders Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid, who are on the verge of getting married (after 2008's Where Memories Lie
). The how, where and when of their wedding proves
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Morrow $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-06-128751-0
When a diamond brooch stolen decades ago turns up for sale at an upscale London auction house, the brooch's owner, Dr. Erika Rosenthal, a retired academic who escaped Nazi Germany with her philosopher husband, David, during WWII, turns for help
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Morrow $24.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-06-052527-9
The start of Crombie's solid 11th contemporary police procedural featuring Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and Gemma James of the Notting Hill Metropolitan Police (after 2004's In a Dark House
) finds the two detectives, also romantic...
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Morrow $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-052525-5
A serial arsonist nutter is on the loose in London in Crombie's assured 10th book starring Scotland Yard Det. Supt. Duncan Kincaid and his lover/partner Det. Insp. Gemma James. When a nude, charred female corpse turns up in a burned warehouse,...
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Morrow $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-052523-1
Crombie (And Justice There Is None) offers her most captivating outing yet for Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, recently promoted to detective inspector from sergeant. Still getting over the depression caused by her...
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Deborah Crombie, Author . Bantam $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-10973-3
There's more truth than humor in Crombie's eighth thriller set in contemporary London. When someone does in Dawn Arrowood, the young, pregnant wife of a wealthy antiques dealer, in her soigné
Notting Hill home, Inspector Gemma James is
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Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-227166-2
In bestseller Crombie’s sturdy 18th novel featuring Det. Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Det. Insp. Gemma James (after 2017’s Garden of Lamentations), Det. Sgt. Melody Talbot invites Gemma, Duncan, their children, and Det. Sgt. Doug Cullen to spend a...
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Deborah Crombie. Harper, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-299339-7
Bestseller Crombie’s skillfully plotted 19th police procedural featuring the husband and wife team of Det. Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Det. Insp. Gemma James of Scotland Yard (after 2019’s A Bitter Feast) perfectly balances the investigative action...
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