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A librarian with a love of books. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Kit Moonstar's Quick Questions interview.)

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This Time It’s Personal

Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie

August 6, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #britishmystery, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #britishmystery, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural ·
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Cover for Witch King by Martha Wells

Fantastic Book, Wrong Reading Mood

Witch King by Martha Wells

July 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar 2 Comments

Kaiisteron awakes to find a minor mage trying to use his mage.  It doesn’t end well for the mage.  After being murdered and having his consciousness trapped for who knows how long, Kai has a lot of questions, and he’s not liking the answers so far.  As he sets out to figure out both what happened to him and what’s currently going on, Kai will have to gather his friends and family close and figure out both who to trust and what his path forward […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, martha wells

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, martha wells ·
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Cover for Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie

Messy Relationships All Around

Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie

July 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #britishmystery, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #britishmystery, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural ·
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Cover for Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie

Duncan Kincaid Has Bad Judgement When It Comes to Women

Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie

July 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

Duncan and Gemma are pulled into a case as a favor for a higher up when Connor Swann, the son in law of Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline, is found floating dead in the river.  It’s an odd case to begin with where the deceased’s in laws seemed to have liked him better than their own daughter, his wife Julia.  There’s also the fact that their young son died in a similar manner twenty years ago and the only witness was his sister.  It doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural ·
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Cover for All Shall Be Well by Deborah Crombie

A Character Study Wrapped in a Mystery

All Shall Be Well by Deborah Crombie

July 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

When Duncan’s next door neighbor passes away in her sleep, something about the situation seems off to him, and he can’t help but look into things.  The matter quickly gets more complicated when a it’s revealed that Jasmine was planning to commit suicide due to her terminal illness but changed her mind.  Duncan’s gut instinct is that there is something more to her death than meets the eye, but nothing seems to add up.  And as he digs deeper into Jasmine’s life, he beginning to […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural ·
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Murder Does Not Take a Vacation

A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie

July 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid was looking forward to a nice vacation in the country after a rough case.  Thanks to his cousin, he’s got a spot at a timeshare in Yorkshire and plans on enjoying his holiday.  Unfortunately, he’s barely been there a night when one of the staff is found floating dead in the pool.  As much as Duncan knows he should stay out of it, when the local investigator starts the case by dismissing it as a suicide, Duncan can’t help but get […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #britishmystery, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Deborah Crombie, Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Mysteries, police procedural ·
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