WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/50868995

Water Like a Stone

When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn'a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation and preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more troubling by her meeting earlier in the day with the Wains, a traditional boating family whose case precipitated Annie's leaving her job. As the police make their inquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely market town of his childhood is far from idyllic and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets . . . secrets that may threaten everything and everyone he holds most dear.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn'a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation and preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more troubling by her meeting earlier in the day with the Wains, a traditional boating family whose case precipitated Annie's leaving her job. As the police make their inquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely market town of his childhood is far from idyllic and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets . . . secrets that may threaten everything and everyone he holds most dear."@en
  • "Ein neuer Fall für Superintendent Duncan Kincaid und Inspector Gemma James. Weihnachten naht, und Superintendent Duncan Kincaid fährt mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Gemma James zu seiner Familie nach Cheshire. Das Idyll im mittelalterlichen Städtchen Nantwich wird jedoch bald getrübt, als Kincaids Schwester Juliet in einer alten Scheune eine mumifizierte Babyleiche findet. Zur selben Zeit trifft Kincaids Exfreundin, die Sozialarbeiterin Annie, zufällig eine Frau wieder, die vor Jahren verdächtigt wurde, ihre Kinder zu misshandeln. Als Kincaids Sohn Kit zwei Tage später zum Kanal hinuntergeht, stolpert er über einen leblosen Körper im Gras. Es ist die Leiche von Annie ..."
  • "In the aftermath of a teenager's drowning in a Cheshire countryside canal, Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate strange connections between the victim and two past murder cases."@en
  • "In the aftermath of a teenager's drowning in a Cheshire countryside canal, Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate strange connections between the victim and two past murder cases."
  • "When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn?a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation and preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more troubling by her meeting earlier in the day with the Wains, a traditional boating family whose case precipitated Annie's leaving her job. As the police make their inquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely market town of his childhood is far from idyllic and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets . . . secrets that may threaten everything and everyone he holds most dear."
  • "When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn--a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation and preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more troubling by her meeting earlier in the day with the Wains, a traditional boating family whose case precipitated Annie's leaving her job. As the police make their inquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely market town of his childhood is far from idyllic and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets ... secrets that may threaten everything and everyone he holds most dear."@en
  • "Duncan Kincaid et Gemma James, tous deux inspecteurs à Scotland Yard envisagent de passer d'agréables vacances de Noël avec leurs enfants respectifs, mais dès qu'ils arrivent dans la maison familiale, la police locale est aux aguets. Une enfant momifiée est retrouvée scellée dans un mur, ainsi que le cadavre d'une femme sur une péniche.--[Memento]."
  • "Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family in Cheshire. But their visit is marred when Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn. As the police make enquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the town of his childhood is far from idyllic."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Printed books"
  • "Mystery and detective stories"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Works by women"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Une eau froide comme la pierre : roman"
  • "Water Like a Stone"
  • "Water Like a Stone"@en
  • "Water like a stone [a novel]"@en
  • "So will ich schweigen Roman"
  • "Water like a stone : [a novel]"
  • "Water like a stone"@en
  • "Water like a stone"
  • "So will ich schweigen : Roman"

workExample