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A review by ncrabb
Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
3.0
Someone killed Connor Swann and tried to make it look like he drowned in the Thames River. They found strangle marks on his neck and ruled it a homicide. Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James visit the rural town where it happened. Several years earlier, as you learn in the prologue, Swann’s estranged wife, Julia, watched as her older brother drowned in the same river. Swann loved placing bets on the horses, and he wasn’t great at it. Swann’s mistress insists his estranged wife killed him. As to the estranged wife, there are many in the community who wonder whether she killed her brother some two decades earlier.
But it’s not that easy, as you’ll learn if you read this. This is a British-type police procedural written by an American. You won’t find the kind of rapid cuts from scene to scene and fast action you would if this were a film. It’s slow action but not boring action. I enjoy these two police characters a lot, and the plot leaves you wondering about the relationship between these two. Kincaid comes off as a bit of a loser in this book, but Gemma isn’t as choosy as one would like her to be either.
But it’s not that easy, as you’ll learn if you read this. This is a British-type police procedural written by an American. You won’t find the kind of rapid cuts from scene to scene and fast action you would if this were a film. It’s slow action but not boring action. I enjoy these two police characters a lot, and the plot leaves you wondering about the relationship between these two. Kincaid comes off as a bit of a loser in this book, but Gemma isn’t as choosy as one would like her to be either.