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Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing--and deadly--complications.

As a murder case he's been drawn into unfolds, a novelist realizes he's at the center of a story he can't control--and that the brilliant detective who is his partner may be hiding dark secrets of his own.

When an arrogant police officer is found dead at home, there are many potential suspects. Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jones are on the case, setting aside their personal feelings about the deceased.

Recently transferred to Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new team are called to a bombing at historic St. Pancras Station. As Kincaid gathers facts, every piece of the puzzle yields an unexpected pattern.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. But when Jess returns from a two-week Christmas holiday, she finds Chris has started dating someone else. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into (hell, sharing a bathroom with) the man of her dreams, and the woman of his.

When a body is discovered floating in a Thames River lock one dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to Chiltern Hills. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London's most renowned opera personalities. And prints on the corpse's neck suggest that Swann was strangled. As Duncan and Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames and the flamboyant world of London opera in search of answers, they discover a tangled web of family secrets and hidden emotions.

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep--at last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, to a startling conclusion: Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already doomed?

A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James.

A crime of passion strikes close to home when Gemma and her best friend, Hazel Cavendish, travel to Scotland, where an unexpected meeting with Hazel's old flame yields shocking, and mortal, consequences. Hazel is the logical suspect, but Gemma knows nothing is simple in this place of secrets and long-seething hatreds. When the investigation takes a darker, more sinister turn, Gemma knows she will need assistance to unravel this bloody knot. And so she calls the one man she can trust, Duncan Kincaid, to join her far from home and in harm's way.

In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook. They break class boundaries while creating new ways of writing recipes.