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Learn morePerhaps 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.
Deborah Crombie is a New York Times bestselling author and a native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland. She now lives in McKinney, Texas, sharing a house that is more than one hundred years old with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherds.
Michael Deehy is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and an actor whose career has taken him around the world performing in a multitude of plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, and a host of other playwrights. He divides his time between the United States and England, where he has performed in both regional theater and in London’s West End, as well as a number of national television shows.
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“Respects all the conventions of the police procedural subgenre but still manages to seem fresh and lively…This is an extremely satisfying procedural with good plotting and excellent characterizations.”
“[It’s the] firm portraits of even minor characters that make this linger in the memory.”
“Though part of a series, this mystery is a superb stand-alone novel…Suspense and careful sleuthing form the quintessential whodunit and provide nonstop entertainment.”
“Written with compassion, clarity, wit and precision, this graceful mystery amply fulfills the promise of Crombie’s debut novel…The clues finally click into place and reveal the culprit.”
“Michael Deehy’s solemn voice provides a courtly eloquence to Deborah Crombie’s moody police procedural…His performance gives multiple dimensions to each of the possible suspects…[and] allows Crombie’s subtle clues to reveal themselves in ordinary, completely human ways. He is nicely understated as Duncan and Gemma’s connection deepens and the mystery slowly unfolds.”
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