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Leave the Grave Green
Paperback
Main Details
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Leave the Grave Green
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Deborah Crombie
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:352 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780330348836
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint |
Pan Books
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| Publication Date |
13 September 1996 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
When a body is found floating in the Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of London's most renowned opera personalities. And prints on his neck suggest that Swann was strangled. As Duncan and Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames and the flamboyant world of London opera in search of answers, they discover a tangled web of family secrets and hidden emotions. And when Duncan finds himself dangerously drawn to a suspect, he and Gemma must sort out their complicated feelings for one another...
Author Biography
Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas. After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James novel. She has since been nominated for the Agatha, Macavity and Edgar Awards and is published across the world. Deborah lives with her family in a small North Texas town and frequently visits the UK. Leave the Grave Green is her third novel in her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series.
ReviewsKirkus Review US:Twenty years after their son, Matthew, drowned in an accident near their home, noted opera conductor Sir Gerald Asherton and his wife, Dame Caroline Stowe, who retired from the opera stage after Matty's death, have an eerily similar tragedy to face: The body of their daughter Julia's estranged husband, Connor Swann, of whom they've remained inexplicably fond, has tumbled from the Hambledon Lock. But Connor's death, as Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James (All Shall Be Well, p. 19, etc.) soon realize, was anything but accidental, and someone among the circle of mourners must be feigning grief - unless his killer was his widow, who takes sharp issue with the descriptions of her mother ("everyone liked Con") and the English National Opera staff ("a lovely man") and calls him a "bastard." Dividing the labor of interrogating the suspects - Gemma takes an afternoon at Brown's Hotel to enjoy an impossibly English tea with opera wardrobe manager Tommy Godwin, with Anglophilic Texan Crombie piling on the scones and clotted cream and coy remarks about prewar detective fiction - the two veterans of Scotland Yard's Homicide Squad patiently unearth the secret Connor died for and predictably disturb the dust on Matty's grave. Though Gemma sagely tells Tommy, "This isn't a detective novel, for heaven's sake," it's as tidily plotted and neatly written as the genuine article. (Kirkus Reviews)
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