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 […]