
This is the second novel in her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series. Deborah lives with her family in a small North Texas town and frequently visits the UK. She has since been nominated for the Agatha, Macavity and Edgar Awards and is published across the world.

After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James novel. About the Author Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas. and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape - a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. It may well have been suicide she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable.

At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. Product Description Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep.
