为谁哀伤 Mourn Not Your Dead

分类: 图书,进口原版书,文学 Literature,
作者: Deborah Crombie著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 2005-10-1字数:版次:页数: 325印刷时间: 2005/10/01开本: 64开印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780060789572包装: 平装内容简介
Amazon.com
The three things that make Deborah Crombie's books about a pair of Scotland Yard detectives so fascinating are (a) the way the relationship between Superintendent Duncan Kinkaid and Sgt. Gemma James is constantly--and believably--changing; (b) the meticulously researched and impeccably presented details of British police procedure; and (c) the fact that the superb chronicler behind these multi-layered tales of British society is a native Texan and current resident of a small town near Dallas. This fourth entry in Crombie's excellent series sends the gently raised, intellectual Kinkaid and the tougher, more abrasive James out after the killer of a much-unloved senior policeman in suburban Surrey. Other books in the series also available in paperback are All Shall Be Well, Leave the Grave Green, and A Share in Death. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Sergeant Gemma James and Superintendent Duncan Kincaid reappear (after All Shall Be Well) in this finely tuned procedural that moves between the tidy village of Holmbury St. Mary and the gritty streets of London. Alastair Gilbert, a high-ranking police officer, has been bludgeoned to death in his home in Holmbury, and Scotland Yard's James and Kincaid are called in to aid the local authorities who, over time, prove to be both efficient and fallible. Suspicion immediately falls upon the fragile-looking widow, Claire Gilbert, who, along with her daughter Lucy, Gilbert's stepdaughter, discovered the body. Shrewd and methodical interviews with some of the town's citizens (the pubkeeper and his son; the vicar and doctor, both women; an engaging psychic) show that Claire and Lucy are held in high regard and suggest that more pertinent information might be found in London, where Claire's first husband had been killed in a hit-and-run accident some years earlier-a case in which Alastair had been an investigating officer. Ongoing complications in the evolving relationship between James and Kincaid add depth to the proceedings. With her meticulously, affectionately drawn cast, Crombie is closely attentive to every facet of the tiny village and demonstrates that if country life is clannish and inbred, the small world of the police force is much the same.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介:
DEBORAH CROMBIE was born and educated in Texas and has lived in both England and Scotland.Her Kincaid and James novels have received Edgar,Agatha,and Macavity awards nominations,and her fifth novel,Dreaming of the Bone$was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was selected as one of the l 00 Best Crime Novels of the Century by the lndependent Mystery Bookse||ers of America.Her novels have been published in Japan,German y,Italy,Norway,the Netherlands,France,the Czech Republic,and the United Kingdom.Crombie travels to England severaI times a year and has been a featured speaker at St.Hilda'S Co||ege,0xford.She Iives in a smaI|North Texas town,sharing a turn.of.the.century house with her husband,three cats,and a German shepherd.You can visit her website at www.deborahcrombie.cam.