My first book of the year is finished with the 2nd installment in Deborah Crombie's Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Series with All Shall Be Well.
I thought I knew who'd done it, but I was wrong because Crombie did a good job leading me off the garden path, towards another character. Liked getting to know both Kincaid and Gemma better and the burgeoning attraction between them. Enjoyed and appreciated the old fashioned detective work without benefit of cell phone or computer as both detectives. Kincaid's realization that you can live right next door and still not really know them. The characters discovering Jasmine through her journals and the people she left behind.
"Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, to a startling conclusion: Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already doomed? As Kincaid and his appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle emerges: a bizarre amalgam of charity and crime--and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts."
I thoroughly enjoyed the 2nd book in the series and look forward to reading more. There are currently 18 books in the series which began in 1993 and the 19th book A Killing of Innocents is to be released in this year on June 7th. I'll work my way though them eventually.
Alphabet, dusty book, police procedural, U.S.
This is a series I have not read. It is a nice change to have detectives doing things the old fashioned way.
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