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Dreaming of the Bones
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Series, No. 4

by Deborah Crombie


     Duncan's former wife, Dr. Victoria McClellan, a Cambridge don, has written a biography of the poet Lydia Brooke, who claims kinship to the poet Rupert Brooke. Lydia's suicide five years before appears to Victoria like murder, and she asks Duncan to look into it. He agrees to do so, but it is the subsequent murder of Victoria that throws both Duncan and Gemma into an investigation that leads to a search into the distant past. Victoria's murder also leads Duncan into addressing the problem about the future of Victoria and his son, Kit.

This is another of Crombie's superb novels featuring Kincaid and James. These wonderful characters come alive with their all too human problems and relationships. The plot is well written and continues at a fast pace. The descriptions of Cambridge University are excellent. The reader feels he is there.

Reviews of other titles in this series

Share in Death #1
Leave the Grave Green #3
Mourn Not Your Dead #4
Dreaming of the Bones #5
Now May You Weep #9
In a Dark House #10
Water Like a Stone #11
Where Memories Lie #12
The Sound of Broken Glass #15

 

The Book

Avon/Harper Collins
Feb 2007
Paperback
0061150401
Mystery
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2007
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