Duncan's ex-wife contacts him when her research on a biography of Lydia Brooke turns up evidence that the poet may have been murdered instead of having committed suicide. When Duncan takes a look at the police reports, he notices some irregularities, but the local police refuse to reopen it. Duncan begins his unofficial investigation and is soon joined by his partner Gemma. This was a well-plotted, well-written mystery with enough suspects to make the reader keep guessing. Crombie is an excellent writer. The poetry by Rupert Brooke that headed each chapter was well-chosen, and I enjoyed it as well as the mystery itself. ( )

Well written. I enjoyed the descriptions of the setting and the characters. ( )

Really quite an elegant mystery that kept me guessing much of the time. ( )

#5 Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Scotland Yard mystery. When Duncan receives a call from his ex-wife Victoria, whom he hasn’t seen in over ten years, he wonders what’s up. Vic is a Cambridge University professor and is also writing a biography of a semi-famous Cambridge poet, Lydia, who committed suicide five years previously. After examining Lydia’s papers, Vic begins to wonder if her death was indeed a suicide and has decided to contact Duncan to get his opinion and to see if he can gain access to the police reports from the time of her death. When Vic herself ends up dead a short time later, Duncan’s uneasy feeling about the earlier case are solidified and he vows to stop at nothing to find Vic’s killer, too—and Gemma steps in to assist. I can’t believe how much I’ve come to enjoy this series. Very rarely do I finish a book in a series and want to move immediately to the next one to see what happens next, but I do feel that way with this series. I generally hold myself back though—heaven forbid I make it through them all too quickly and then have to WAIT for the next one! LOL ( )

I like this author, I picked two suspects and was right with one. When I finished the book and knew the details I realised the different clues throught out the book. It is well written and I like the two main characters. ( )