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 […]