A Killing of Innocents, Deborah Crombie
A Killing of Innocents, Deborah Crombie
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A Killing of Innocents
A Novel

Author: Deborah Crombie

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/07/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel focusing on Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they must solve the stabbing death of a young woman before panic spreads across London.
On a rainy November evening, a young woman hurries through the crowd in London’s historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her, then brushes past. A moment later, she stumbles, collapsing against a tree. When a young mother finds her body and alerts the police, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene. The victim, Sasha Johnson, is a trainee doctor at a nearby hospital, and she’s been stabbed.Kincaid immediately calls his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crime. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma joins the investigation. But Sasha Johnson doesn’t fit the profile of the typical knife crime victim. Single, successful, daughter of a black professional family, she has no history of abusive relationships or any connection to gangs. She had her secrets, though, and Kincaid uncovers an awkward connection to his Notting Hill friends Wesley and Betty Howard.As the detectives unravel Sasha’s tangled relationships, another stabbing puts London in a panic, and Kincaid’s team needs all their resources to find the killer stalking the dark streets of Bloomsbury. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Deborah Crombie

Deborah Crombie is 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, two cats, and two German shepherds.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 08, 2023

I loved A Killing of Innocents. It hit all the right notes for me -- a twisty mystery that I didn't guess the solution to, a community of suspects rich with humanity and suspicion, tantalizing updates to the lives of Crombie's whole cast of characters, and of course some quality time with Duncan and......more

Goodreads review by K. Daley on February 25, 2023

enjoyable but uneven I have always enjoyed Deborah Crombie’s Kincaid/James series. This book has all the regular characters and then some. There’s a believable, engaging plot. So what’s the problem? I would say - too many characters some of whom are meant to add color to the portrait of Gemma & Dunca......more

Goodreads review by Wulf on February 18, 2023

For ten years, I’ve been reading this great series by Deborah Crombie of novels about British police detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, first colleagues, now married with children and a glorious, complex patchwork family. The series follows the personal and professional lives of Duncan and G......more

Goodreads review by Christine on February 01, 2023

I love this series, but this wasn't my favorite. Everyone was working on the case, but they weren't working together.......more

Goodreads review by Paula on March 05, 2023

I started reading this series back when it started, and loved all the books,so I was looking forward to this one, the latest. What a huge disappointment. (view spoiler)[ 1- The mystery: It was simply boring,drawn out. It doesn´t build up,there´s a lot of repetition,the solve is rushed and comes out of the blue. The (hide spoiler)]......more