Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #8 by Deborah Crombie On a winter night in Notting Hill, Dawn Arrowood returns home from a doctor’s appointment carrying news that leaves her frightened rather than relieved: she is pregnant, and she has reason to believe…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #7 by Deborah Crombie Duncan Kincaid heads to Glastonbury after his cousin Jack Montfort asks for help with a deeply unusual problem. Jack, an architect restoring an old chapel, has begun behaving in ways that suggest something…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #6 by Deborah Crombie A young woman’s body is discovered in the grass of Mudchute Park in London’s East End, posed with a strange care that immediately suggests the crime is not a simple street attack gone…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #5 by Deborah Crombie Five years after Cambridge poet Lydia Brooke’s death was ruled a suicide, doubts begin to surface when Victoria McClellan starts researching Lydia’s life for a biography. The deeper Vic digs, the less convincing…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #4 by Deborah Crombie Mourn Not Your Dead begins with the murder of Alastair Gilbert, a high-ranking police officer found brutally killed in his own kitchen in suburban Surrey. Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #3 by Deborah Crombie Leave the Grave Green begins when the body of Connor Swann is found floating in a Thames river lock, drawing Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James from Scotland Yard into a case…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #2 by Deborah Crombie All Shall Be Well begins with what appears to be a quiet, almost merciful death. Jasmine Dent, terminally ill and suffering badly, dies in her sleep, and at first her passing seems like…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #1 by Deborah Crombie A Share in Death introduces Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and begins with a setup that has become a classic entry point into the series. Kincaid takes what is supposed to be…
Mike Bowditch #23 by Paul Doiron Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories is not a single Mike Bowditch novel but a collection that brings together eight short works set across the same Maine game-warden world. For the…
Mike Bowditch #24 by Paul Doiron Storm Tide opens with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch trying and failing to rescue entrepreneur Brian Malloy from a house fire. Malloy had been suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son, so his death…