A Finer End
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Deborah Crombie. (2014). A Finer End. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Deborah Crombie. 2014. A Finer End. Recorded Books, Inc.

Deborah Crombie, A Finer End. Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

Deborah Crombie. A Finer End. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

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Two spellbinding mysteries, one contemporary, and one ancient-that will challenge Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as no case ever has. Glastonbury is a town revered as the mythical burial place of King Arthur, and, according to New Age followers, a source of strong Druid power. Something terrible and bloody shattered Glastonbury Abbey's peace long ago-and now it is about to spark a violence that will reach forward into the present.

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   • content: As mystery-romances go, this one is slow to get started. Eventually, Crombie does some clever plotting, and the pace picks up. Jenny Sterlin brings her exceptional reading talents to this, the seventh installment in Crombie's series featuring Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. The duo heads to Kincaid's cousin's place in Glastonbury for a much needed holiday. There they discover his cousin is experiencing episodes of automatic writing and a local artist is compelled to paint a child she's never seen. Sterlin's performance keeps things lively, especially after someone murders an eccentric woman who might be a New Age witch. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from April 16, 2001
     This seventh mystery featuring Scotland Yard detectives and lovers Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jones, a finely nuanced novel replete with multilayered characters and a rare narrative patience, shows Crombie at the top of her form after the relatively weak Kissed a Sad Goodbye
     (1999). The spirit of Edmund, a Glastonbury monk, possesses a cousin of Duncan's, architect Jack Montfort, prompting him to write in scholarly medieval Latin of a missing relic and a chant hidden in the nearby abbey. Among those who form an alliance to decipher the meaning of Jack's writings are Faith, a pregnant teenager, and Garnet, a reclusive artist. Nick, who works at the local bookstore, is besotted with Faith and suspicious of the free-spirited Garnet. When Jack's girlfriend, Winnie, is hit by a car and left for dead and Garnet murdered, Jack invites Duncan and Gemma to Glastonbury to help investigate. The author covers a lot of ground, from Arthurian legend (the abbey may be Arthur and Guinevere's final resting place) to Jack's lineage, which stretches back to Edmund the monk. Who fathered Faith's child is a protracted mystery, while the unearthly beauty of Glastonbury Tor draws believers and skeptics alike, giving solace to troubled souls and stirring others to perform dark deeds. Throughout, the author sustains the sharp sense of a magical history bleeding into the present, even if the denouement is too traditional for all the preceding trappings. Agent, Nancy Yost. (May 8)Forecast:Nominated for Edgar and Macavity awards, Crombie should sell to the same audience that has made Elizabeth George and P.D. James bestsellers.

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