When Gemma’s friend Hazel invites her on a weekend trip to Scotland, Gemma didn’t know she’d be witness to a reunion between Hazel and an old flame.  However, when that old flames turn up dead, shot in the chest, Gemma worries that Hazel might be in trouble.  She calls on Duncan for help, but they also have to navigate turmoil at home as their custody of Duncan’s son Kit is being challenged. This one has an interesting role reversal.  Normally, Hazel has the been the […]

CW: Pregnancy Loss Things are going very well for Duncan and Gemma.  Gemma is settling into her new position as an inspector at the Notting Hill station.  She and Duncan are about to combine households in a new home, and they’re expecting a baby.  Then Gemma catches her first major murder case since being promoted.  Dawn Arrowood the wife a wealthy antiques dealer, is found murdered by her husband.  It’s a high profile case, and Gemma is under quite a bit of pressure.  The murder […]

Jack Montefort isn’t the sort for flights of fancy, so when he starts writing in Latin it’s more than a little concerning.  However, before too long a small odd group has assembled to help him dive into the mystery which seems to be linked to Glastonbury’s famous abbey.  It’s a motely crew consisting of a book seller, a scholar, a pregnant teen, an eccentric potter, and Jack’s girlfriend Winnie who is an Anglican priest.  When Winnie is almost killed one evening by a hit and […]

Duncan is all set spend the weekend with Kit and let him in on the fact that Duncan is likely Kit’s biological father when a murder of a young woman ruins his plans.  As he and Gemma start investigating, it’s clear that the roots of this murder stretch back to the past, and untangling them may reveal fractures in their own lives. On the one hand, I did want the characters to process and deal what happened in the last book which happens to a […]

When Duncan gets a phone call from his ex-wife, Vic, he agrees to look into a suicide from five years ago of the poet she’s writing a biography of.  He doubts there’s anything to find, even if the decision cause strife with his and Gemma’s fledgling romantic relationship.  As expected, there’s no real evidence of anything other than a suicide in the case file.  However, when a sudden death occurs, it throws everything up into the air, and Duncan has a personal interest in solving […]

When a high level police officer is murdered in his own home, Duncan and Gemma are dispatched to his village to solve the case.  However, it quickly becomes clear that Alistair Gilbert was not well liked by much of anyone.  It certainly doesn’t help that it’s Duncan and Gemma’s first time seeing and working with one another since they slept together, and they are clearly not on the same page.  But the two of them will have to put aside their personal feelings both for […]