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Title details for Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie - Available

Where Memories Lie

#12 in series

by Deborah Crombie
Jenny Sterlin
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New York Times best-selling author Deborah Crombie pens suspenseful English mysteries that have drawn favorable comparisons to the best of P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. Her novel Dreaming of the Bones made the Independent Mystery Booksellers of America's list of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the 20th Century. This time Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James delve into a mystery brewing since World War II.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 15, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781456106874
      • File size: 307095 KB
      • Duration: 10:39:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 2, 2008
      When a diamond brooch stolen decades ago turns up for sale at an upscale London auction house, the brooch's owner, Dr. Erika Rosenthal, a retired academic who escaped Nazi Germany with her philosopher husband, David, during WWII, turns for help to her friend Insp. Gemma James in Crombie's lively 12th mystery to feature Gemma and Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid (after 2007's Water Like a Stone
      ). The suspicious hit-and-run death of Kristin Cahill, a young clerk involved in the brooch's sale, is but the first in a series of fatalities to befall people connected to the auction. Crombie raises the suspense by alternating the contemporary story, which includes news of Gemma's mother's battle against cancer, with flashbacks to the investigation of David's unsolved murder in 1952 while he was working on an exposé about Nazi sympathizers. With its echoes of Elizabeth George and even Danielle Steel, this entry will appeal as much to newcomers as to series fans. 7-city author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      There's an interesting phenomenon underway in the world of the British crime novel. The once tidy subcategory of the police procedural has spawned a sub-subcategory--the police family saga, which includes Crombie's popular series featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. We still have thefts and murders and other mysterious doings, but the nonvocational aspects of their lives get equal attention in the narrative. Jenny Sterlin, who has read earlier entries in the series, has everything well in hand. She reads the narrative with energy and subtlety, which add considerable pleasure. In addition, her characterizations of the large cast are believable, individual, and vibrant. The pleasures include Dr. Erika Rosenthal, who retains her strong German Jewish accent in spite of her lengthy residence in England. It all sounds right. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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