Leave the Grave Green

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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.

Critics Review

u201cSecrets, big and little, hound one character after another: liaisons, frustrated ambitions, lies that cover older lies. Deborah Crombie has stylishly adopted a British accent along with a feel for British customs in crime.u201d

Washington Post Book World

u201cThe passages of the first ndrowning are haunting, the mystery is intriguing, the characters are nwell developed and the solution satisfies. Stay tuned.u201d

Publishers Weekly

u201cCrombieu2019s insightful writing and an engrossing reading by Deehy make this haunting whodunit well worth hearing.u201d

AudioFile

u201cDetail and pacing are immaculate as nthe investigation is drawn closer and closer toward domestic secrets as nthe source of the solution to the crime. A superbly engrossing whodunit nfor all active mystery collections.u201d

Booklist

u201cTidily plotted and neatly written.u201d

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