Second book in this excellent series featuring Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James.

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Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long 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 of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape -- a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime . . . and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.

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I started reading this series based on a recommendation of a PBS member, and I like them. I like the character of Duncan Kincaid and each book has a very interesting plot. I like the way the author develops the character so you begin to know him and his partner, Gemma James. The plot thickens in this book when a neighbor of Kinkaid supposedly dies in her sleep but Kinkaid's does not like it when he begins to see certain things that just don't fit. He starts his own investigation until he finds the killer. Good read.

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Another good one. I'm trying to read them in order, but it's hard to resist a new one.

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I usually read historical mysteries, I did enjoy Deborah Crombie.

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Why did terminally ill Jasmine Dent, with only a few months to live, commit suicide? Duncan Kincaid, her upstairs neighbor and Crombie's Scotland Yard hero, is uneasy. Too much doesn't add up. Treating the 40-something woman's death as suspicious, he and his partner Gemma James begin trying to learn something about the aloof Jasmine's life in hopes of shedding light on her death. Did she or didn't she? If she didn't, who did?

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This series about Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid are some of my favorites. You can't go wrong with any of them.

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