Kissed a Sad Goodbye - Softcover

Crombie, Deborah

4.05

7,088 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330369903 ISBN 13: 9780330369909

Publisher: Pan Books, 2010

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In the past: It is September 1939 and thousands of children are being evacuated from London. Among them 12-year-olds Lewis Finch and William Hammond, both billeted on the Surrey estate of the formidable Regina Burne-Jones. Both become allies, then friends, and thus begins a story of choice and betrayal the repercussions of which will echo down the years . . .

In the present: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are called out to investigate a death in London's East End. A young woman known as Annabelle Hammond has been strangled. Prime suspect is a busker she was seen talking to just before she disappeared. And when he turns out to be Gordon Finch, Duncan decides to investigate events which occurred more than fifty years before.

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Review:

"Atmospheric ... absorbing ... haunting."
-- "The Washington Post Book World"
"[Crombie] is writing in P.D. James territory, and she is a master."
-- Associated Press
"Crombie never stumbles as she maneuvers her way through her complicated plot as skillfully as she handles the ongoing romance between her two detectives. The result is an Anglophile's delight."
-- "The Sunday Denver Post"
"Deborah Crombie is an American mystery novelist who writes so vividly about England, she might have been born within the sound of Bow bells. [She] gets better with each book ... lyrical, biting, and evocative."
-- "The Plain Dealer, " Cleveland
Also by Deborah Crombie:
Dreaming of the Bones
And coming soon in hardcover from Bantam Books:
A Finer End
"Atmospheric ... absorbing ... haunting."
-- The Washington Post Book World

"[Crombie] is writing in P.D. James territory, and she is a master."
-- Associated Press

"Crombie never stumbles as she maneuvers her way through her complicated plot as skillfully as she handles the ongoing romance between her two detectives. The result is an Anglophile's delight."
-- The Sunday Denver Post

"Deborah Crombie is an American mystery novelist who writes so vividly about England, she might have been born within the sound of Bow bells. [She] gets better with each book ... lyrical, biting, and evocative."
-- The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

Also by Deborah Crombie:
Dreaming of the Bones

And coming soon in hardcover from Bantam Books:
A Finer End

Book Description:

The sixth in the Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series.

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