Deborah Crombie's seventh Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel starts with change. Gemma's been promoted to DI and transferred to Notting Hill so both are breaking in new partners. It's also the Christmas season and they're combining households (prompted by Gemma's pregnancy) in a house in Gemma's new territory so when someone murders the wife of a local antiques dealer, some of the suspects are the detectives' new neighbors and local gossip is part of her investigation. Duncan complicates matters by seeing a link between an unsolved case he worked on two months earlier. Gemma can't see the link (and maybe feels a bit like she can't get out of her former boss's shadow), but the memories of a woman known as Angel who grew up in post-WWII Notting Hill slowly provide clues for the reader. Personally, I like it when I solve the mystery a few pages ahead of the detectives and that's what happened here. Beyond that, And Justice There Is None works as a novel where we see the characters' relationships evolve realistically - mostly in positive ways, but with bumps and awkward situations. It's my favorite in the series so far.
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