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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061150401
ISBN number: 0061150401
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: January 30, 2007
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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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.
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'Deborah Crombie might be the most British of American mystery novelists,' said an astute reviewer in reference to Mourn Not Your Dead, the fourth book in her excellent series about Duncan Kincaid, an inoffensively upper-class Scotland Yard superintendent, and Sergeant Gemma James, his rougher-edged partner and lover. In addition to her finely tuned ear for the subtler nuances of Britspeak, Crombie--a resident of Richardson, Texas--achieves a rare and therefore enviable balance between the details of her characters' private lives and the plot of each particular book. That delicate balance is especially welcome in Dreaming of the Bones, when Kincaid's former wife, Dr. Victoria McClellan, threatens his personal and professional equanimity. A Cambridge don, Vic has been writing a biography of poet Lydia Brooke, who claimed kinship to the distinguished World War I bard Rupert Brooke, and whose suicide five years before is now beginning to appear suspiciously like murder.
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5th in Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series. Duncan's ex-wife calls and asks him for his help in figuring out whether a poet actually killed herself or if it was murder. At first, Duncan disagrees, but when Vic is killed herself, he finds himself trying to figure out both crimes while trying to help Vic's son grieve.
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After reading Leave the Grave Green as an audiobook and enjoying it thoroughly, I was tempted to read more Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James mysteries. I picked out Dreaming of the Bones. While Deborah Crombie is a skillful writer, and there were many things in the story I enjoyed, there were a number of plot elements that I found uncredible that detracted from this sequel. I did not find a credible motive for the main murder nor the accidental murder years earlier that started the chain of deceit. It just didn't work for me that the whole group of kids would have hidden a foolish crime or an accident the way they did. To have a successful mystery you have to have a believable premise that delivers at the end, and this one didn't.
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Reading this book was an emotionally draining experience-the kind that always comes after reading a thrilling literary novel. Many of the characters in this book feel loss in one sense or another, but it's the way Crombie conveys this that make the book so potent. With magnificent characters and startling plot twists, this elaborate whodunit keeps you guessing up until the end. Even though I was disappointed by the identity of the killer, the book was still worth it. Superintendent Duncan Kincaid gets an unexpected call from his ex-wife, who is writing a biography of ill-fated poet. Asked to look into the poet's suicide, Duncan finds some inconsistencies but the police refuse to reopen the case. Suddenly his ex-wife is murdered; poisoned just like the poet. Now Duncan and his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James, must find out who murdered the poet in order to expose his ex-wife's killer.
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I love Deborah Crombie's work and this is one of her best.
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I have recently found this series and find it quite a joy to read. What keeps me coming back is the way Ms. Crombie develops the relationship between Kincaid and James. Their relationship is not free of stumbling blocks and this adds to the realism of the story. This novel, in particular, does a wonderful job of introducing the reader to Kincaid's ex-wife, Vic. The mystery which evolves is compelling in its own right, but what I enjoyed the most was the way Kincaid and James are changed by the outcome. A quick read.
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