Deborah Crombie combines the personal with the professional in her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James mysteries. Here, the two are throwing their first dinner party as a couple, inviting his boss and his wife and both partners new professional partners to round out the table. Towards the end Gemma gets a call from a distressed friend. Art expert Erika Rosenthal, who escaped Nazi Germany with her late husband, and one of her former students has seen the broach her father made and which was stolen during her escape in a local auction brochure. As she begins asking a few low-key questions for her friend, Gemma discovered that Erika's husband was murdered in the 1950s and the detective on that case mysteriously died a few days after being told to stop investigating. Will Gemma solve the cold case, and is it connects to the murder of a young auction house employee? Maybe it's a bit coincidental but Crombie ties the crimes together in an unexpected way.
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