Dreaming Of The Bones
When talented and tormented poet Lydia Brooke dies, it is assumed that she has taken her own life. Now obsession has taken hold of Victoria McClellan. A feminist biographer at Cambridge, Vic finds herself immersed in the poet's world. Uneasy about the manner of Lydia's death, Vic calls on her...
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When talented and tormented poet Lydia Brooke dies, it is assumed that she has taken her own life. Now obsession has taken hold of Victoria McClellan. A feminist biographer at Cambridge, Vic finds herself immersed in the poet's world. Uneasy about the manner of Lydia's death, Vic calls on her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, for help. But before he can take action, Vic herself is dead--and there's no question that this one is murder. As Kincaid and his lover and partner, Gemma James, investigate, they are exposed to secrets that have reached out over three decades and poisoned a dozen lives.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780684801414 (0684801418)
Publish date: October 7th 1997
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 352
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...