Deborah Crombie

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1993
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel

1 - A Share in Death (Feb-1993)
2 - All Shall Be Well (Jan-1994)
3 - Leave the Grave Green (Feb-1995)
4 - Mourn Not Your Dead (Jun-1996)
5 - Dreaming of the Bones (Oct-1997)
6 - Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Apr-1999)
7 - A Finer End (May-2001)
8 - And Justice There Is None (Aug-2002)
9 - Now May You Weep (Sep-2003)
10 - In a Dark House (Oct-2004)
11 - Water Like a Stone (Feb-2007)
12 - Where Memories Lie (Jun-2008)
13 - Necessary as Blood (Oct-2009)
13.5 - Nocturne (Jan-2012)
14 - No Mark Upon Her (Feb-2012)
15 - The Sound of Broken Glass (Feb-2013)
16 - To Dwell in Darkness (Sep-2014)
17 - The Garden of Lamentations (Feb-2017)
18 - A Bitter Feast (Oct-2019)
19 - A Killing of Innocents (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • A Share in Death

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 1

    It was a peaceful holiday ... until a body washed up in the whirlpool bath. That's when Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard gets to work investigating murder amidst the secluded loveliness of a Yorkshire time-share. Together with...

  • All Shall Be Well

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 2

    Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James have never dealt with death so close to home. Jasmine Dent, a friend and neighbor of Duncan, is found dead. Because she was terminally ill, the initial consensus is suicide. But t...

  • Leave the Grave Green

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 3

    When a body is found floating in a Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of...

  • Mourn Not Your Dead

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 4

    Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are sent to suburban Surrey to investigate the murder of a high-ranking police officer. Alastair Gilbert was bludgeoned to death in his kitchen, and the list of potential suspects i...

  • Dreaming of the Bones

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 5

    DREAMING OF THE ROSES After twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call. In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic's uncov...

  • Kissed a Sad Goodbye

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 6

    Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Genuna James face their most haunting case vet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present.... The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse tine for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincai...

  • A Finer End

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 7

    Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James return in another spellbinding novel of mysteries -- one contemporary, one ancient -- an investigation that will challenge them personally and professionally a...

  • And Justice There Is None

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 8

    Sergeant Gemma James of New Scotland Yard is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector--and a future now intimately entwined with Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. But her...

  • Now May You Weep

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 9

    Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's hom...



  • Blackmail!

    in The Sunken Sailor

    Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...

  • In a Dark House

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 10

    An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the di...

  • Water Like a Stone

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 11

    Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner, Sergeant Gemma James, take their sons to picturesque Cheshire for their first family Christmas with Duncan's parents -- a holiday both dreaded and anticipated. But not even the charming town of...

  • Where Memories Lie

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 12

    A lifetime ago, Erika Rosenthal and her late husband, David, fled to England to escape the Nazis -- which is all Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James truly knows about her secretive friend's past. But Erika needs Gemma's help now. A family h...

  • Necessary as Blood

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 13

    Once the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and the avant-garde, a place where elegant Georgian town houses exist side by side with colorful street markets and the hippest clubs. But here races and cultures still ...

  • Nocturne

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 13.5

    For a limited time, download Nocturne, an original short story by bestselling author Deborah Crombie, that leads into her forthcoming novel, No Mark Upon Her. In No Mark Upon Her, Olympic rowing hopeful and Metropolitan Police officer DCI Rebecca ...

  • No Mark Upon Her

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 14

    New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense -- a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious ...

  • The Sound of Broken Glass

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 15

    In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a ne...

  • To Dwell in Darkness

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 16

    In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James ...

  • The Garden of Lamentations

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 17

    Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing -- and deadly -- complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series. On a beautiful morning in mi...



  • A Bitter Feast

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 18

    New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie returns with a mesmerizing entry in her “excellent” (Miami Herald) series, in which Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are pulled into a dangerous web of secrets, lies, and mu...

  • A Killing of Innocents

    A Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Novel - 19

    New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a “gripping police procedural” (Washington Post) featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spre...

Award-Winning Books by Deborah Crombie

Dreaming of the Bones
1998 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
Where Memories Lie
2009 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Deborah Crombie has published 21 books.

Deborah Crombie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Killing of Innocents, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death, was published in February 1993.

Yes. Deborah Crombie has 1 series.
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