Deborah Crombie

Now May You Weep Gemma is invited by her friend and former landlord Hazel Cavendish to a “cookery weekend” in the Scottish Highlands at a bed and breakfast managed by one of Hazel’s old school friends and her husband. Little does Gemma know, however, that the whole event has been arranged to bring Hazel back to the area where she grew up so that she might reconnect and explore … [Read more...] about Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Books 9-12 by Deborah Crombie

Dreaming of the Bones After making my way through the first four books in this series with reasonable alacrity, I really stalled out on Dreaming of the Bones at first. A large part of the problem for me was that it had to do with the death of a poet five years prior, and was thus strewn with quotations of both poetry and flowery letters. Once I summoned the fortitude to … [Read more...] about Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Books 5-8 by Deborah Crombie

Like Elizabeth George, Deborah Crombie is an American writing about Scotland Yard detectives in England. Her works come recommended by a friend who knows and shares my taste in mysteries, and now that I've been overtaken by a powerful urge for a mystery binge, I am finally checking them out. There are presently sixteen books in the series; I plan to tackle them in four … [Read more...] about Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Books 1-4 by Deborah Crombie