A country house whodunnit introducing Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James. Kincaid's holiday in Yorkshire turns sinister when one of the hotel guests is found murdered in the hotel's whirlpool bath. Ably assisted by Gemma, Kincaid sets out to track down a surprising killer.
The life of Scotland Yard's Gemma James is changing in major ways-she's just been promoted to Inspector, she's pregnant, and she and her young son are about to move into spacious new digs with her lover, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. Then the beautiful young wife of a Portobello Road antiques dealer is murdered in the driveway of her Notting Hill home and the case lands in Gemma's disappearing lap. Dawn Arrowood, as Gemma soon discovers, was pregnant when she died, most likely by Alex Dunn, a porcelain dealer in Portobello Market whose disappearance after the murder makes him a ...
Agatha Award (nominee)Edgar Awards (nominee)Macavity AwardsDr Victoria McClellan is writing a biography of the tortured poet Lydia Brooke, five years after Brooke's tragic suicide. Victoria becomes immersed in Lydia's life – she cannot believe the poet died by her own hand. So she calls her SI ex-husband for help in the case who receives terrible news…
An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women’s shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy’s Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator – a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who’s vanished without a trace.And in an old, dark rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet’s awful fears won’t be silenced – as she worries about her feuding parents, her schoolwork… and the strange woman who is her only companion in this scary, ...
The third in the Duncan Kincaid mystery series. Superintendent Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to investigate the drowning of a man. Twenty years earlier, the man's brother had drowned in mysterious circumstances. Could it be that the murderer is one of the family?
Senior policeman Commander Albert Gilbert is found dead at home. Inspector Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James soon have their prime suspect in Geoff Genovase, until one of Gemma's colleagues, Jackie Temple, voices her suspicions about a senior police officer.
La muerte violenta del comandante de la polic?a Alastair Gilbert, a golpes de martillo, en la cocina de su casa, convulsiona la aparente tranquilidad de Holmbury St. Mary, un pueblecito de Surrey cercano a Londres. El historial opaco de la v?ctima, poco apreciada por sus convecinos y tampoco por algunos c?rculos de la polic?a, hace que el trabajo de los investigadores de Scotland Yard, el comisario Duncan Kincaid y la sargento Gemma James, emprenda dos direcciones. ?La delicada esposa del comandante o alguno de los vecinos est?n implicados en el asesinato o es el entorno policial de Gilbert el que lo est??
In this dazzling addition to Deborah Crombie's acclaimed mystery series, a disappearance, a murder, and a child in danger lead Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid into London's legendary East End – a neighborhood where the rich and the poor, the ambitious and the dangerous, collide – to solve one of the most challenging and disturbing cases they've ever faced…Necessary as BloodOnce the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and the avant-garde, a place where elegant Georgian town houses exist side by side with colorful street markets ...
La muerte durante el sue?o de Jasmine Dent, aquejada de un c?ncer incurable, no extra?a a nadie, hasta que su vecino de escalera, el comisario de Scotland Yard Duncan Kincaid, intuye por ciertos indicios desconcertantes que su fallecimiento no ha sido causado por la enfermedad y ordena una autopsia. El diagn?stico es claro: muerte por sobredosis de morfina. ?Suicidio o asesinato? Asesinato. El hallazgo del diario ?ntimo de Jasmine, iniciado en la India, donde su padre estaba destinado, cuando s?lo ten?a diez a?os, y el testimonio de las personas que se mov?an a su alrededor, en el presente y en el pasado, constituir?n para Kincaid y su ayudante Gemma James el punto de partida de una laboriosa investigaci?n que pondr? en evidencia los designios ocultoslas ambig?edades, las desalmadas ambiciones y tambi?n la bondad de unos seres humanos. Todos ellos podr?an ser culpables, pero s?lo uno ser? se?alado por Kincaid.
Connor Swann, yerno de Sir Gerald Asherton, director de orquesta, y de su mujer, Dame Caroline, cantante de ?pera, es hallado muerto en una esclusa del T?mesis en la encantadora campi?a de los alrededores de Henley. Ante las dudas acerca de las circunstancias de su fallecimiento, el comisario Duncan Kincaid y la sargento Gemma James son designados para encargarse de dilucidar el caso, y pronto se percatan de que no se trata de un accidente. Otro suceso tr?gico ya hab?a golpeado a los Asherton veinte a?os atr?s con la muerte por ahogamiento de ...
Una semana de vacaciones en una lujosa residencia de propiedad compartida, situada en un tranquilo paraje de Yorkshire, es justo lo que le conviene al comisario de Scotland Yard, Duncan Kincaid, agotado por una sobrecarga de trabajo. No obstante, en vez de las actividades relajantes, como excursiones y lectura, que ha programado, justo al d?a siguiente de haber conocido a todos los hu?spedes en un c?ctel de presentaci?n encuentra el, cad?ver del subdirector del establecimiento flotando en la piscina. No ser? el ?nico.?Qu? relaci?n pueden tener con las v?ctimas del ...
Erika Rosenthal has always been secretive with her friend and neighbor, Detective Inspector Gemma James, about her past, except for one telling detail: She and her long-dead husband, David, came to London as refugees from Nazi Germany. But now the elderly woman needs Gemma's help. A unique piece of jewelry stolen from her years ago has mysteriously turned up at a prestigious London auction house. Erika believes the theft may be tied to her husband's death, which had always been assumed a suicide.Gemma has a tough challenge. She must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London 's monied society to discover the jewelry's connection to David's murderer. However, the cold case needs to be put back on the books and possibly into the hands of her partner, Duncan Kincaid. When a second, present-day murder kicks the investigation into high gear, Gemma becomes more determined to exact justice for Erika – in a case that will have lasting repercussions.
