Where Memories Lie.

Crombie, Deborah (author).

Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid take on a case with links to the past. Gemma’s friend Erika Rosenthal, whom she met while working on another case (A Finer End, 2001), calls because she has just seen a beautiful art deco brooch made by her father, a famous jeweler, in an auction catalog. The brooch was stolen from her. Gemma knows little of Erika’s past, other than the fact that she and her late husband, David, came to London before World War II as refugees from Nazi Germany. David was a bitter, withdrawn man who was murdered near the Thames. The case was never solved. When a young woman who works for the auction house listing Erika’s brooch is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Gemma becomes suspicious. As she, Duncan, and Sergeant Doug Callen dig deeper, a second murder occurs. Their search for the truth leads to fascinating links between the past and the present. A strong entry in a consistently fine British procedural series; recommend this one to fans of P. D. James’ Adam Dalgleish.