Mourn Not Your Dead

This is a new circa 2008 paperback edition (cover photograph by Simon Marsden) of Deborah Crombies fourth novel after A Share In Death; All Shall Be Well; and Leave the Grave Green all of which feature Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James. In this mystery they are drawn into a case that challenges both their investigative skills and their feelings for each other... The murder at Holmbury St. Mary was not one that Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard would relish investigating. A man had been beaten to death in his own home. A man who just happened to be Commander Alastair Gilbert of the Metropolitan Police... The only clues on offer are a few missing items from Claire Gilberts jewellery collection and a string of local burglaries. Did the senior policeman merely interrupt a thief at work? Or does the sleepy suburban village house someone with far more sinister deadly motives...?