Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #18 by Deborah Crombie A weekend in the Cotswolds sounds like a rare chance to slow down, especially when Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, and their family are guests of Melody Talbot at her parents’ home. That calm…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #17 by Deborah Crombie A young woman in a white dress is found dead in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens, posed so serenely that, at first glance, she appears merely asleep. The victim is Reagan Keating,…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #16 by Deborah Crombie A demonstration at St. Pancras turns catastrophic when a young man carrying what was meant to be a smoke bomb instead triggers an explosion that kills him and sends panic through the station.…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #15 by Deborah Crombie A barrister is found dead in a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, under circumstances compromising enough to make the case immediately messy for the detectives assigned to it. Gemma James teams up with…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #14 by Deborah Crombie Rebecca Meredith goes missing after rowing alone on the Thames near Henley, and the search soon turns grim when her body is found in the river. She is not just an accomplished sculler…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #13 by Deborah Crombie Sandra Gilles vanishes after leaving her three-year-old daughter at Columbia Road Flower Market, and for a time the disappearance can be read in more than one way. Maybe she fled her marriage. Maybe…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #12 by Deborah Crombie A plea from Gemma James’s neighbor Erika Rosenthal turns an ordinary London spring into something far more troubling. Erika, who fled Nazi Germany years earlier, has lived with a carefully guarded past, but…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #11 by Deborah Crombie Christmas in Cheshire is supposed to be a family visit for Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, and the children, but the holiday turns darker when a mummified infant’s body is discovered hidden inside the…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #10 by Deborah Crombie A fire in an abandoned Southwark warehouse exposes a woman’s charred body, immediately turning what might have been an arson investigation into something far more sinister. At the same time, staff at Guy’s…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #9 by Deborah Crombie Gemma James agrees to a trip to the Scottish Highlands with her friend Hazel expecting a change of scene, but the holiday turns uneasy almost at once. Hazel has been keeping a dangerous…