A KILLING OF INNOCENTS--OUT IN PAPERBACK for Valentine's Day!

DEBORAH CROMBIE: Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! And I have another good reason to celebrate--A KILLING OF INNOCENTS is out in paperback today!

I thought this was the perfect opportunity to wish a Happy Valentine's Day to my own favorite fictional detecting couple, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Detective Inspector Gemma James.

I could never have imagined, nineteen (and counting) books ago, that my two single characters were starting a romantic journey together.

In that first book, A SHARE IN DEATH, we meet the newly minted professional partners. They were both divorced, Gemma juggling single motherhood with the demands of the job, Duncan dealing with the bitterness of a decade-long estrangement from his ex-wife. Neither of them was looking for a relationship.

But cupid had other plans (and who was I to argue?) Since then, over the course of the series, Duncan and Gemma have navigated love and loss, friendship, separations, and life-altering decisions. Now, in A KILLING OF INNOCENTS, we find them married, with a blended family, in a home they love. Partners, in every sense of the word. 

Readers, do you have a favorite detecting couple? I think my first must have been Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, and then, be still my heart, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. I was hooked on crime and romance! I hope my detectives have done their predecessors justice!

Here's more on A KILLING OF INNOCENTS: New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a “gripping police procedural” (Washington Post) featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spreads across London.

On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she's been stabbed. 

Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes. But Sasha Johnson doesn’t fit the profile of the task force’s typical knife crime victim. Sasha had her secrets, though, and some of them lead the detectives uncomfortably close to home. Kincaid, Gemma, and their colleagues must put everything on the line to find the killer stalking the dark streets of Bloomsbury.

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