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Water like a stone

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James's idyllic holiday at his family's home in the Cheshire countryside is interrupted by murder both past and present. A teenager drowns in a local canal, the remains of an infant are discovered in an old canal-side barn, then a troubled former social worker is found murdered in her boat. As Duncan and Gemma investigate they realize that the lives of the three victims were intertwined in unexpected ways, and that the claims of the past will not be silenced until old wounds are healed. Soon they find that the all-too-present dangers only underline how the past never truly dies, and that not even Kincaid's family is safe from harm.

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  • "Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James's idyllic holiday at his family's home in the Cheshire countryside is interrupted by murder both past and present. A teenager drowns in a local canal, the remains of an infant are discovered in an old canal-side barn, then a troubled former social worker is found murdered in her boat. As Duncan and Gemma investigate they realize that the lives of the three victims were intertwined in unexpected ways, and that the claims of the past will not be silenced until old wounds are healed. Soon they find that the all-too-present dangers only underline how the past never truly dies, and that not even Kincaid's family is safe from harm."@en
  • ""When superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation, preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more disturbing by an unexpected meeting earlier in the day. As the police make enquires into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic"--Publisher's description."@en
  • "When Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family in Cheshire, they are all soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn."
  • ""When superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation, preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more disturbing by an unexpected meeting earlier in the day. As the police make enquires into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic"--Pub. description."
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  • "When Superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin, Lally. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation , preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more disturbing by an unexpected meeting earlier in the day. As the police make enquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic..."@en
  • "Although the presence of Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid provides the glue that ultimately holds Crombie's latest novel together, the pair seems less involved in solving crime this time than in previous adventures. That doesn't stop this multifaceted mystery from being one of the best in Crombie's long-running series. Christmas with Duncan's family proves just as stressful as Gemma feared, though not in the way she anticipated. Moments after arriving at the elder Kincaid's farmhouse, Duncan is called away by his sister, who has discovered the body of an infant entombed in the wall of a building she is renovating. The sad, horrifying discovery sets the stage for a tightly knit, two-pronged tale, which has a retired social worker at its heart. Duncan's teenage son, newly come to live with his father and Gemma, and Duncan's sister, whose family is disintegrating, are in sharp focus here, as is a canal-boat family whose suffering reminds Duncan and Gemma of recent losses of their own."

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Water like a stone"@en
  • "Water like a stone"
  • "Water like a stone a novel"
  • "Water like a stone a novel"@en

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