Synopses & Reviews
It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected—and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet, Lydia Brooke—a case that's been officially closed for five years. The troubled young writer's death, Victoria claims, might well have been murder.
No one is more surprised than Kincaid himself when he agrees to investigate—not even his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James. But it's a second death that raises the stakes and plunges Kincaid and James into a labyrinth of dark lies and lethal secrets that stretches all the way back through the twentieth century—a death that most assuredly is murder, one that has altered Duncan Kincaid's world forever.
Synopsis
A bizarre and powerful connection between 1960s poet Lydia Brooke, who supposedly committed suicide, Duncan Kincaid's ex-wife Victoria McClellan, and Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke, leads Kincaid and his partner Gemma to murder, obsession, and secrets hidden for three decades.
Synopsis
After twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call.
In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic has uncovered reasons to believe Lydia's death five years ago was not suicide. Much to Kincaid's surprise -- and the unease of his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James -- he finds he can't refuse Vic's request to look into the long-closed case.
The police report raises questions, but not enough to reopen the investigation -- until a second death occurs, this one clearly murder. Now Duncan and Gemma must sift through a tangle of relationships, secrets, and lies to find not just a killer, but a secret which will change their own lives forever.
Synopsis
When a talented poet is found dead, a suspected suicide, her biographer asks her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, and Sergeant Gemma Jones to prove a case of murder, but Kincaid and Jones soon discover startling news of scandal, secrets, and lost innocence. Reprint.
About the Author
Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas. After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first novel, A Share in Death, which was nominated for both an Agatha and a Macavity. Her fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was chosen by the Independent Mystery Booksellers of America as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century. Her novels have been published in Japan, Germany, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. Crombie travels to England several times a year, and has been a featured speaker at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. She lives in a small North Texas town, sharing a turn-of-the-century house with her husband, her seventeen-year-old daughter, three cats, and a German shepherd.