Dreaming of the Bones
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...
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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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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780061150401 (0061150401)
ASIN: 61150401
Publish date: January 30th 2007
Publisher: Avon
Pages no: 355
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James (#5)
Feels like the series is hitting it's stride with this book. At first I wasn't sure I was enjoying it since it spent so much time with a woman who had been dead for five years. But the looks back in to Lydia's life proved important to her death (long believed to be a suicide) and to the death of V...