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Review #1

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Having to wait so long between books is painful. I’ve read all of Deborah Crombie’s books since my late mother gave me a stack of paperbacks in 2001. Duncan & Gemma are real people, real parents, real law & order professionals. Stand alone or start at the beginning, I cannot hesitate to say the reader will fall in love.

I don’t know if Ms. Crombie intentionally wrote this chef/food based tale in answer to the rising interest of readers and tv viewers in the food scene, but it made this novel especially interesting to me. I have read the entire series, and I never tire of it as each is quite different and not your usual procedural. This time Duncan, Gemma and family are invited to Melody’s parents’ cottage in the Cotswolds for a weekend that includes a charity luncheon held by her mother, Addie. Viv, a local chef, has been enlisted to show her talents and provide food for the luncheon where prominent individuals, including food critics, will be in attendance. The notoriety has brought Viv’s London past to the village and caused a series of tragedies that Duncan and Gemma help to untangle. The rural locale is vivid, the characters as well drawn as ever, and the mystery complicated enough to keep the reader guessing. Food dishes are described in minute detail as is the back of the house restaurant scene. And for a Texas author, the English countryside in exceptionally well depicted! I look forward to the next installment….

Review #2

A Bitter Feast audiobook in series Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Mystery Novels

Review #3

Audiobook A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie

I own all of her books up to and including this newest one. They are wonderful and I often re-read them. Problem though – she doesn’t write fast enough for me. When I got the new book, I sat down and started reading and by the end of the night, I was done, now I have to wait and wait again.

I have loved all of the Duncan Kincaid series except this one. Perhaps it’s that it took Crombie 6 years to write this next book in the series, but it just wasn’t exciting like all the others. It was like Duncan and Gemma were just bystanders in the story, as were Melody and Doug. They bumbled around, not being police but just in the outskirts of a boring story. It wasn’t hard to figure out who the murderer was. There was no edge of your seat thrill. The second story within the story wasn’t really helpful. I’m disappointed. It’s as if Crombie just got tired of her characters and that made them confused and trite.

Review #4

Audio A Bitter Feast narrated by Michael Deehy

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to write a murder mystery, imagine trying to create something like A Bitter Feast, Deborah Crombie’s eighteenth entry in the Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid series. Forget the plot. Just consider the large cast of characters.

An epically large cast of characters
** For starters there are Gemma James, Duncan Kincaid, and Kit, the oldest of their three children, who’s fifteen.
** Add Doug Cullen, Duncan’s sergeant at the Met.
** Then there’s the family they’re visiting in the Cotswolds, Sir Ivan and Lady Adelaide (Addie) Talbot and their daughter, Melody Talbot, who is Gemma’s sergeant at the Met.
** At the Talbots’s eight-bedroom “cottage,” Beck House, Lady Adelaide has a secretary, Rosalind (Roz) Dunning, and a gardener named Joe.

You might think that’s the end of it. But no. There’s more.
** Now, most of the action revolves around the nearby village pub, where Viv Holland is the talented chef.
** The pub’s staff also includes Bea Abbott, Viv’s partner and manager, and Ibby Azoulay, one of the two cooks who join Viv in the kitchen, as well as Jack Doyle, the bar manager.
** Then there’s Nell Greene, Viv’s friend, and Mark Cain, her neighbor and lover.
** Viv’s eleven-year-old daughter, Grace, plays a major role, too.
** Now add Detective Inspector Colin Booth, who comes on the scene once bad things start happening.

I may have forgotten someone, but I think those seventeen are the principals. And Crombie tells the story through the point of view of every single one of these people! The only major characters whose minds we never invade are Fergus O’Reilly, the celebrity chef from London, since he turns up dead rather quickly; restaurateur Colm Finlay, Fergus’s former partner, who’s on stage only briefly; Andy Monahan, Melody’s rock star boyfriend, who makes a cameo appearance; and Gemma and Duncan’s two younger children, Toby and Charlotte. It’s truly hard to imagine how Crombie could possibly have kept straight all the interrelations among this horde of personalities — and what they were thinking at every moment along the way. It’s like three-dimensional chess, and I confess I would not be up to the task.

For the most part, I avoid whodunnits. And A Bitter Feast is most assuredly a whodunnit. However, I make an exception for Crombie because she does such a great job describing the family dynamics involving Gemma, Duncan, and their children. Of course, she’s also adept at the sine qua non of mystery novels, building suspense. But, as I’ve noted above, it’s more to the point here that she is adroit in the extreme in handling a large cast of characters. The result is that this novel, as so many of her others, comes across as something resembling real life.

Review #5

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When this hit my kindle on its release date I opened it and tears filled my eyes. It was like coming home! I love Duncan and Gemma! They are like favorite relatives that you cherish any time you get to spend with them. The story is great and again Ms Crombie does an excellent job of pulling you in! She is a master storyteller!!! Please get this book and if you haven’t read the others do that also!!! You are in for a treat!!! Thank you!!!

I love this series and have read every one of them (18 to date!) but I was really disappointed this time. The main crime plot was quite good but was padded out with endless descriptions of cooking and catering, and the running Kincaid family saga didn’t progress one jot, which was a bit of a let-down having waited nearly two years for the next instalment. All their pets, even Kit’s beloved Tess, were abandoned in London throughout this one, presumably in the care of the much put-upon Wesley Howard although we weren’t actually told this. And as for poor old Sid (Kincaid’s cat inherited from his former neighbour Jasmine Dent in book 2 or 3) the last we heard of him was two books ago when he was hiding under the bed or somewhere having had his peaceful home invaded by dogs, stray kittens and assorted children! Okay, this is trivial stuff, but Crombie has taken so much trouble in the past to set it all up that the reader is entitled to feel a bit cheated when it’s suddenly ignored.

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