A Share in Death

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Review #1

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After reading and enjoying the 15th and 16th books in this series, I decided to go back and start from the beginning. This first whodunit is more traditional (think Agatha Christie) than her latest book. I’m looking forward to watching Crombie’s development as a mystery writer as I read the series chronologically. Her characters are well-drawn, her plot fast paced and complicated enough that figuring out the murderer took me most of the book, and she doesn’t use sentence fragments to gain the reader’s attention instead of employing creative syntax and diction ( a very annoying affectation I see in too many contemporary novels, particularly “literary” ones).

However, I take umbrage with the ebook translation of this text. For a book first published in 1993, $11 seems a bit steep, especially since the scans turned far too much regular text into italics, which I found distracting. In addition, there were at least 5 scanning errors that should have been corrected. Amazon Digital Services needs to hire better editors.

Review #2

A Share in Death audiobook in series Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James Mystery Novels

Deborah Crombie was recommended as a novelist by Louise Penny, Canadian author of the Inspector Gamache series. This first Deborah Crombie book did a good job of establishing the characters for her series and of setting the place– London’s and the Scotland Yard.

The writing of this first novel showed promise and so I continued reading–right through the 16th book! By the time author Crombie wrote the second novel, she had improved so much that it was orders of magnitude better. And she certainly hit her stride by book 3.

This series begins with Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant Gemma James who become romantically involved. The novels have multiple plot levels: 1) a crime–a murder 2) the private lives of Kincaid and James and 3) another sub-plot or two in each novel. The sub-plots vary from historical architecture to office politics to child care to sociopath behavior to rowing, brewing single malt scotch to music!

If you read the first novel and recognize that it 1) was a first novel and 2) has the big job of character establishment, and if you enjoy police procedural novels with a sense of place, I think you’ll want to continue the series.

Review #3

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This is my first time reading Deborah Crombie. I am glad I started at the beginning with the first book in her Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series. A share in Death started with Duncan going on holiday. His cousin is not using his time in a timeshare and offers it to Duncan. You meet the different guests at the beginning and get an idea of who will be important. The characters in this book are fascinating and well formulated.
The first to die is electrocuted in a pool. Of course, another body follows as secrets are kept and information is not revealed It all leads to the ending which I admired. I admit I didn’t put it together. The ending was evident after the fact. I have already started collecting Deborah Crombie books and can’t wait to continue examining the Duncan and Gemma mysteries.

Review #4

Audio A Share in Death narrated by Michael Deehy

I began reading the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James books in the middle of the series – Water Like a Stone – and was hooked but, to be honest, I wouldn’t have read all Deborah Crombie’s 18 in the series had I started at the first which Is good but not as rounded as the later novels and I held off commenting on any until completed the marathon. Firstly, I can say, without fear or favour, that I thoroughly enjoyed all of the mysteries. They are all whodunnits but centred around an expanding group of families and friends. While each book covers a separate mystery and murder(s) there is the recurrent theme of the family that runs through all the stories – and often murders come to Duncan and Gemma – separately and together. Because of the titles there is no need for a spoiler alert to the readers of the first book to know that Duncan and Gemma become an item and then a family – not as quickly as one might think. Having read a number of books that have been turned into TV series I’m surprised that no-one has attempted to turn what I believe to be one of the finest of the genre – I have not come across another series that so economically but finely draws its main characters. However, I notice that many of the current TV series have relatively few central characters and that perhaps the increasing cast of friends and family (despite losing a few on the way) might put producers off.

Review #5

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I was guided towards Deborah Crombie by a website which suggested that ‘If you like Stuart Pawson, you’ll like Deborah Crombie”. Not so! Unlike Pawson’s books, this one is totally devoid of humour, the characters are two-dimensional, the story line plods along like an ancient carthorse and the denouement is absurd. The only similarity with Pawson is that it is set in Yorkshire – at a “luxurious timeshare”.

Now, Crombie lives in Texas but the timeshare she describes is clearly based on an actual place – I have stayed there myself and her description of it is very accurate. So I will grant that she must have visited England. But there her knowledge of England and the English seems to end. The book is peppered with Americanisms and American spelling – fiber instead of fibre, color instead of colour, whiskey referring to Scotch whisky (as opposed to Irish whiskey). The police sergeant tells her boss that she’s visited the local GP’s ‘office’, one character comes to ‘tell’ another goodbye, another eats ‘fried potatoes’ and a third talks about someone weighing ‘200 pounds’ rather than 14 stone.

I assume that originally Crombie was writing for an American audience who, of course, wouldn’t have noticed these aberrations. But this was the UK edition Why did a copy editor not pick up on them? And, surely, for her own self-respect, in the interests of accuracy, Crombie could have got an English person to read the book before she even submitted the final draft to the publishers.

But it’s not just the writing that niggles. The plot is patently absurd. The local Detective Chief Inspector is exceptionally rude to the ‘hero’, a Detective Superintendent. Admittedly, the DS is from Scotland Yard and so not the DCI’s immediate superior, but he does outrank him and to imagine that the DCI could get away with being so insolent is surely a flight of fantasy. And, although I haven’t spent a lot of time in Yorkshire, I have never heard a Yorkshireman call someone ‘laddie’. To me, that’s Scottish – but it’s the DCI’s favourite epithet, particularly for those he doesn’t approve of – including the Superintendent.

The police procedure also seems very odd. OK, I don’t know a lot about police procedure, but I have read a lot of well-written detective stories and I have never before heard of a sergeant in a murder investigation travelling the country to interview people who might happen to know something about the people who were in the house at the time of the murder.

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