Books like Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie
During a quiet holiday in Cheshire, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid joins his daughter Gemma, niece Kit and friend Toby for a visit to his family. While the town’s historic canal and charming streets enchant them, an unsettling discovery rocks the group: a mummified infant’s body is found hidden in the wall of an old dairy barn. As Kincaid and his colleagues investigate the infant’s death, the investigation unfolds against a backdrop of family tensions, a recently drowned schoolmate of Kit’s cousin Lally, and the reclusive former social worker Annie Lebow, who lives aboard a narrowboat and is grieving a recent job loss. The case forces Kincaid to confront the sinister underbelly of his beloved childhood town and its surrounding waterways, as the investigation threatens everything he holds dear.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Deborah Crombie
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