Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah CrombieMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I struggled to get into the 5th book in the series, Dreaming of the Bones.
Victoria McClellan, Duncan's ex-wife, has remarried and has a son. Now living in Cambridge, she's writing a biography of Lydia Brooke, a Cambridge poet whose death five years earlier was ruled as suicide. But reading her poetry and letters, Victoria believes that she didn't kill herself but may have been murdered.
She asks Duncan Kincaid to look into the poet's death. At first he's not convinced about the allegations and also Gemma, his partner both professionally and personally is not too happy about his involvement with his ex-wife, who had treated him rather shabbily 12 years ago.
But Victoria's findings seem to have some cause for him to look into the case. And when Victoria is murdered in her home, he's not only devastated but determined to bringing her killer to justice.
The investigation leads to the Cambridge literary world of the 60's and Lydia's circle of friends then. These were the characters I just couldn't engage with. They were so fickle and vacant, so self-absorbed. I couldn't find anything about them that could redeem them. In fact, they could have all been bumped off and I wouldn't give a toss...
I just wanted to get to the end to find out who the killer/s were and turn the last page.
The only redeeming factor in this story as seeing the growing relationship between Kincaid and Gemma and her son Toby. I am also keen to discovering more about Victoria's son, Kit.
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