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Title: And Justice There Is None by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0-553-57930-4 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Seeds of Ruin
Comment: AJTIN is a meditative mystery which serves as a vehicle for Crombie to muse on how tragedy is often determined by choices in the distant past. She deftly weaves together the experiences of the hero and the murdered in a way that makes a tapestry of shared experience.
Written with solid skill and admirably crafted characters, if AJTIN has a flaw, it's in the predictability of the ending and the feeling that the plot is twisted to make a point. But it's really a minor flaw-- recommended for fans of British procedurals and of mystery in general.
Rating: 5
Summary: This may be Crombie's best work so far...
Comment: I really loved this book and was torn between reading it quickly to find out what was going to happen next or reading it slowly to savor the pleasure for as long as possible. Crombie keeps getting better and her two main "detectives", Kincaid & James, are endearing, interesting characters who you grow to care about in this series. I can hardly wait to find out what will happen to them in the next book.
The plot for this book involves events from the 60s, and periodically the present day story will be interrupted by pages telling another story from the past. Of course by the end of the book, you understand why that 60s story explains these current day murders, but it takes a long while to put 2 and 2 together. A young woman, pregnant with her lover's child, is found savagely murdered in the driveway to her upper class home in Notting Hill, a trendy London neighborhood. The woman's disreputable antique-dealer husband is the obvious suspect -- perhaps too obvious. Gemma James is in charge of the murder investigation, but since there is a possible connection to a murder being investigated by Duncan Kincaid, these two (now living together but no longer working together) end up working together again on this case. Perhaps the same person who killed another woman two months previously -- a case Kincaid was in charge of -- also killed this Notting Hill woman, since the method was so similar. But what is the connection and why were they killed?
There are a lot of unusual neighborhood characters, including a couple of veterinarians and a man who feeds the homeless.
Although I guessed the killer about half-way through the book (based not on clues but on a shrewd guess based on my knowledge of mysteries in general), it didn't diminish from my enjoyment of the book. I used to think Deborah Crombie was almost as good as Elizabeth George, but now I think Elizabeth George is almost as good as Deborah Crombie.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dependably Fine
Comment: I think it's clear that you can count on Crombie to come through with a fine, serviceable and well-crafted mystery. She is not going to win the Nobel for Literature since mysteries are only appreciated by those who "get it", but Crombie is a first-rate practicioner of good mysteries.
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Title: A Finer End by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0553579274 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 055357924X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0425157784 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0425153088 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie, Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0553579312 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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