Award-winning author Deborah Crombie has elevated the modern mystery
novel to new heights of human drama and multilayered suspense with her
critically acclaimed tales of intrigue featuring Scotland Yard Detective
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James. In their latest
outing, Kincaid and his former partner--and soon-to-be roommate--follow
a twisting trail of rage and retribution whose buried roots are about to
exact a deadly toll on the living.
And Justice There is None
Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes that
include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector--and a
future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new
responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a
particularly brutal homicide: The lovely young wife of a wealthy
antiques dealer has been found murdered on fashionable Notting Hill.
Dawn Arrowood was six weeks pregnant. Her lover, Alex Dunn, a porcelain
dealer in London's bustling Portobello Market, appears absolutely
devastated by her death, but Gemma's the main focus of investigation is
soon Karl Arrowood, who had the most powerful motive for killing his
unfaithful wife. But this case sets off warning bells for Duncan: it's
far too similar to an unsolved murder in which an antiques dealer was
killed in precisely the same way and when the escalating violence claims
yet another victim, he and Gemma find themselves at increasing odds with
each other--as two separate investigations become linked in the most
startling of ways. Their hunt for a killer will traverse the teeming
stalls of the city's antiques markets to a decades-in-the-making
vendetta of history and hatred that has been honed to a flawless, deadly
point. To solve this case, Gemma and Duncan must walk a merciless
razor's edge through a place where true justice will be a long time
coming.
