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New York Times Notable Book of the Year author Deborah Crombie has garnered tremendous praise -- and has been nominated for virtually every major mystery award -- for her piercing police procedurals featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, who are personally and professionally entwined. Now Gemma takes center stage when a lethal crime of passion turns a recreational trip to Scotland into pure bloody business.
Though her reputation for delving into the heart of murder is matched only by that of her former partner and current lover, Duncan Kincaid, newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, a homecoming for native daughter Hazel -- and an event that has provoked strong reactions from the small community. Something is definitely amiss -- and that something is quite possibly Donald Brodie, the charming if intense Scotsman who is a guest as well.
The truth comes out before long: Hazel and Brodie were once lovers, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their families, rival local distillers of fine whisky. Their affair was fierce and passionate, and its fire might not have burned out completely. Certainly Brodie, now the domineering head of the family business, believes his "Juliet" still belongs to him alone -- and he's prepared to destroy Hazel's English marriage to make it so.
A brutal murder puts Hazel's very life in peril when she's arrested for the crime. Hazel is the logical suspect, but Gemma knows nothing is simple in this place of secrets and long-seething hatreds. As even more damning evidence piles up against the friend Gemma never truly knew, the investigation into Hazel and Brodie's history begins to take darker, more sinister and tumultuous turns. Gemma knows she will need assistance to unravel this bloody knot -- and so she calls the one man she trusts more than any other, Duncan Kincaid, to join her far from home . . . and in harm's way.
Author Notes
Deborah Crombie was born in Dallas, Texas on June 6, 1952. She received a degree in biology from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in advertising, as a journalist, and as a manufacturer's representative for theatre concessions. Her first book, A Share in Death, also became the first book in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novel series. She won the Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel for Dreaming of the Bones in 1997 and the Macavity Award for Best Novel for Where Memories Lie in 2009. In 2014 her title, To Dwell in Darkness, made The New York Times Best Seller List.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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 miscarriage, Gemma accepts the invitation of a married friend, Hazel Cavendish, to attend a cooking weekend in Innesfree, Scotland. Gemma thinks the misty, atmospheric landscape of the Highlands, where fine whiskey is distilled and the brogues of the natives ring like music in the air, will be just what she needs to complete her recovery. However, Gemma's hopes are soon dashed by Hazel's revelation that she has come to Innesfree to meet her former lover, Donald Brodie, a handsome distillery owner. When someone shoots Donald dead, Hazel becomes a prime suspect. Gemma investigates, but must be careful to avoid stepping on the toes of DCI Alun Ross, the local authority in charge. Duncan leaves his own problems with his son, Kit, behind in London and joins Gemma in Scotland, but it's Gemma who mainly ferrets out the secrets of the large list of suspects, any one of whom could be the murderer. A master storyteller, Crombie weaves together all the pieces, including a parallel story from a century earlier, to create a fabric as rich and history-laden as a tartan plaid. With vivid settings, well-developed characters and a finely tuned mystery, this is a pure gem guaranteed to satisfy both police procedural and cozy fans. Agent, Nancy Yost. (On sale Oct. 7) Forecast: Crombie has been nominated for Edgar, Agatha and Macavity awards. This time she may finally win one. A six-city author tour can't hurt. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Here is a country house murder mystery very like the single malt whisky at the heart of it--many-layered, deceptively mellow, packing quite a kick. Crombie separates her popular series characters, Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Notting Hill Station Detective Inspector Gemma James, by having Gemma accompany her best friend to the Scottish Highlands for a cookery weekend. Gemma soon learns she was invited as a front for her married friend's assignation with her lover, the owner of a famous Highlands distillery. In the best Agatha Christie tradition, long-standing feuds seethe beneath the placid, well-heeled surface, all bubbling to the top with the friend's visit. Then Gemma stumbles over the distillery owner, killed with a shotgun blast. With that, Gemma and Kincaid join forces again in a sometimes-comic procedural dance, their steps watched jealously by the local constabulary. While sometimes too self-consciously cozy, this is, overall, delightful. --Connie Fletcher Copyright 2003 Booklist
Kirkus Review
Detective Inspector Gemma James (And Justice There Is None, 2002, etc.) is cast in some unaccustomed roles--dupe and murder suspect--when she goes to Scotland for a cooking class. Gemma doesn't know what's really cooking. Her friend and former landlady, psychologist Hazel Cavendish, is less interested in picking up culinary expertise from chef John Innes than in rekindling her ancient romance with local distiller Donald Brodie. Not even Hazel knows that Donald's also being pursued by shopgirl Alison Grant, who's pursued in turn (in a neat completion of Crombie's social stratification) by stable owner Callum MacGillivray. The situation is obviously explosive, and when John is killed, the only surprise is that it took so long. As the suspects stand around pointing their fingers at each other--at one point somebody suggests they must all be in it together--DCI Alun Ross gets pointedly interested in Hazel, and even in Hazel's husband Tim, who seemed to be safely tucked away back in London. Meanwhile, Gemma's lover and housemate, Supt. Duncan Kincaid, is threatened with the loss of his late wife's son in a custody suit. For good measure, there's also a series of flashbacks to a pivotal episode in the distillery's history a hundred years ago. The atmosphere is rich and peaty, but the pace is glacial--nearly another century passes before the plot begins to thicken--and neither Gemma nor Kincaid shines as a detective this time. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
For Crombie's popular combo, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James, Scotland doesn't mean tartans-it means murder. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.