MOURN NOT YOUR DEAD: A Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Crime Novel - Hardcover

Crombie, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684801310 ISBN 13: 9780684801315

Publisher: Scribner, 1996

Synopsis

The murder of Police Commander Alastair Gilbert compels Inspector Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James to bring their every investigative skill to bear and to reexamine their turbulent feelings for one another and their professional ethics. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

Recipe for a perfect village murder mystery: Start with one pristine British hamlet, stir in the murder of the local police chief, add a shrewd local member of the clergy and a detective from Scotland Yard; season with a dash of clandestine romance. In her latest, Deborah Crombie cooks up the perfect example of the genre. In this offering the hamlet is called Holmbury St. Mary, the murder victim was a widely-hated bully and the vicar is a woman. A delicious concoction.

From the Back Cover:

When a high-ranking police officer is brutally murdered, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are drawn into a case that not only challenges their investigative skills but forces them to examine their ethics and their relationship with each other. On an evening in mid-November, Alastair Gilbert, a Commander in the London Metropolitan Police, is found dead in the kitchen of his suburban Surrey home by his wife, Claire, and seventeen-year-old stepdaughter, Lucy. Gilbert was bludgeoned to death, and there was no sign of forced entry. Someone must have taken Gilbert by surprise - or the killer was someone he trusted. Kincaid was once Gilbert's student at the police academy, and he fears his personal antipathy toward the dead man may lessen his objectivity in the case. Even more distracting is the state of his relationship with Gemma - strained and tense ever since their intimate encounter a few days earlier. Both Duncan and Gemma must try to put their feelings for each other and their memories of Alastair Gilbert aside as they discover that Gilbert did not always play by the rules that he publicly espoused, particularly when the rules might have hindered his rise to power.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684801310
• ISBN 13: 9780684801315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288