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by Deborah Crombie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (21 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333901959
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333901953
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,124,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Inspector Kincaid finds himself at the centre of a mystery - a mystery which, it seems, is being orchestrated by a 13th-century monk.


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Deborah Crombie has had a lifelong interest in English mysteries. She grew up in Dallas and has lived in Scotland and England.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful mixture of old and New Age Glastonbury, 9 Jun 2001
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This review is from: A Finer End (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels) (Hardcover)
As a reward for her excellent series about two Brit cops, her publisher has given Deborah Crombie (the pride of the North Texas hill country) an absolutely gorgeous piece of book-making to dress up her seventh outing -- an evocative sepia photograph of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey on the cover, and wonderful endpapers by Laura Hartman Maestro, full of sketches and maps that catch the unique flavor of the ancient Arthurian town of Glastonbury which has become a prime New Age hangout. The words inside are not too shabby, either -- one of Crombie's best efforts, using the contrasts and tensions within the town to set off a marvelously rich story about everything from automatic writing to psychopathic filial love. Crombie's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James -- no longer working in the same cop shop (she has a new appointment away from Scotland Yard) and also divided by the needs of their respective children -- enter the Glastonbury part of the story late and somewhat obliquely, well after Duncan's cousin Jack Montfort finds his hand suddenly recording the Latin words of a long-dead monk. When Montfort's love interest, a feisty female vicar, is savagely attacked, he calls on Cousin Duncan for help. Kincaid brings Gemma along in hopes of solving their own problems, but more explosions of violence and death - seasoned with bursts of intriguing history and myth - keep everyone on edge up until the last page of this splendid entertainment.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Book, 17 Feb 2004
By Valerie Adolph "Garden Godwottery" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Finer End (Paperback)
This is a book of great depth that manages to combine a modern mystery with two completely different dimensions - one historical and one spiritual.

Writing a good mystery is an art in itself. I’ve reviewed a lot of them and it takes a really good writer to make me care about the characters as people and to feel involved in their lives and their tribulations. Usually I read them in a detached way, assessing the characterization, setting, dialogue and so on. This story grabbed me from the beginning and I cared about Jack, Winnie, Fiona and the others and what happened to them. I found the setting completely engrossing - Glastonbury has depth and dimensions of history that the writer has portrayed accurately. This tale requires a great amount of suspension of disbelief, but it worked and worked well for me.

I am always impressed that an American woman can express English life, especially one eccentric corner of it, so precisely. It’s not jut acute observation, it’s an understanding of the feelings under the surface.

This is a really good English mystery novel, with an unexpected bonus of present evils woven into ancient wrongs. The writer’s understanding of the thinness of the veil between the Old religion and the New, as well as the possibility, in certain circumstances, of the collapsing of time to reach others across the centuries is well balanced. This could have been mawkish and New Age precious but it isn’t. The writer nails perfectly these spiritual and temporal ambiguities.

This is a fine book in a good series.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not P.D. James, 2 April 2009
This review is from: A Finer End (Mass Market Paperback)
I find there's nothing more annoying than reading a book set in the UK when the author hasn't done enough research into the language. The author gave herself away as American a hundred times - particulary irritating was the use of the word "kibble" for pet food which is not a word we use on this side of the pond. Just needed to rant about that. Other than that, the story is fine if you're into new age stuff and give credence to automatic writing etc. Other wise, give it a miss. This will not tempt me to read anything else by this author - any comparisons to P.D. James are very misleading.
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