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Title details for Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie - Available

Leave the Grave Green

#3 in series

by Deborah Crombie
Michael Deehy
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When a body is discovered floating in a Thames river lock one dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to Chiltern Hills. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London's most renowned opera personalities. And prints on the corpse's 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 each other.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 11, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792741008
      • File size: 261331 KB
      • Duration: 09:04:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In the third in Crombie's Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series, the Scotland Yard detectives are called in to investigate when a body is found floating in a Thames River lock. Before long, the two find themselves untangling a complicated web of family lies and deception. Thanks to narrator Michael Deehy's layered performance, listeners feel Kincaid and James's attraction to one another yet understand their reluctance to complicate their working lives by allowing it to surface. Deehy's secondary characters are multidimensional and intriguing, especially when Kincaid finds himself inexplicably drawn to the victim's estranged wife. Crombie's insightful writing and an engrossing reading by Deehy make this haunting whodunit well worth hearing. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 29, 1999
      Crombie's Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant Gemma Jones make a welcome return, after All Shall Be Well, to investigate a suspicious drowning in the countryside outside London. The seemingly placid domestic life of distinguished conductor Sir Gerald Asherton and his wife, Dame Caroline Stowe, a renowned soprano, is disturbed when their son-in-law's body slips through the local lock and is dragged up to reveal suspicious bruises around the neck. The Ashertons' daughter Julia had recently left Connor, who was ``on good terms with pints and ponies.'' While her parents continued to lunch weekly with the victim in their stately home, Julia, who 20 years earlier had witnessed her little brother's death by drowning, has had nothing to do with him. The youthful, slightly rumpled Kincaid, his pleasant manner masking a keen intelligence, and the equally insightful, appealing Jones make little pretense that police work is objective, detached business. Occasionally Crombie lets their personal feelings-Kincaid's for the widow, Jones's for opera, and both for each other-outweigh the story. Nonetheless, the passages of the first drowning are haunting, the mystery is intriguing, the characters are well developed and the solution satisfies. Stay tuned. Author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The police are called out when the body of Connor Swann, son-in-law of an operatic conductor and his celebrated soprano wife, Dame Caroline Stowe, is found floating in a Thames River lock. However, Deborah Crombie's engaging English sleuths, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James, soon begin to wonder how Swann's murder might be connected to the death of Caroline Stowe's young son twenty years earlier. Crombie's popular series delights lovers of British detective stories, and narrator Christopher Kay clearly enjoys them too. His clear pacing and warm, distinctive voice enhance the telling, enticing the listener to curl up for a satisfying listen. The characters are well drawn vocally--his Kincaid is subtly upper crust, his James, distinctly less well born. One slight irritation is that most of his women sound too breathy. But that's it. This is a pleasure. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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