Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
Gemma, Duncan, and the boys are back in their Notting Hill house and enjoying a quiet spring in London when Gemma receives a plea for help from her friend and neighbor, Erika Rosenthal. Erika has never shared much of her past, other than telling Gemma that she and her husband came to London before the war as refugees from the emerging Nazi regime in Germany. Her husband was a historian and was found murdered in a local park. His death was never solved. Now Erika tells Gemma that a necklace from her past has come up for auction - a necklace which was taken from her. Now Erika asks Gemma to find out where the necklace came from. As Gemma works backwards, interviewing the staff at the auction house and looking into the records of David Rosenthal's death, her viewpoint is interwoven with Erika's vivid memories of her life as a young woman in London during and after the war. Then a young woman at the auction house is murdered and suddenly the case becomes very much centred in the present.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. Pan Books, ISBN: 9781447283638 (October, 2014), 288 p., £7.99.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
Gemma, Duncan, and the boys are back in their Notting Hill house and enjoying a quiet spring in London when Gemma receives a plea for help from her friend and neighbor, Erika Rosenthal. Erika has never shared much of her past, other than telling Gemma that she and her husband came to London before the war as refugees from the emerging Nazi regime in Germany. Her husband was a historian and was found murdered in a local park. His death was never solved. Now Erika tells Gemma that a necklace from her past has come up for auction - a necklace which was taken from her. Now Erika asks Gemma to find out where the necklace came from. As Gemma works backwards, interviewing the staff at the auction house and looking into the records of David Rosenthal's death, her viewpoint is interwoven with Erika's vivid memories of her life as a young woman in London during and after the war. Then a young woman at the auction house is murdered and suddenly the case becomes very much centred in the present.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. Pan Books, ISBN: 9780330445023 (August, 2010), 351 p., £6.99.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (USA 2010)

From the Publisher:
From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Deborah Crombie comes a riveting story of a past evil that endures.
A lifetime ago, Erika Rosenthal and her late husband, David, fled to England to escape the Nazis -- which is all Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James truly knows about her secretive friend's past. But Erika needs Gemma's help now. A family heirloom, stolen during their flight, is being sold at a prestigious London auction house. Who has had it all these years? And was Erika's husband's death more sinister than it appeared?

Hidden somewhere in the shadowy, exclusive world of London's monied society are answers to these questions, and to a shocking new murder -- one which kicks the enquiries into high gear and brings Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, Gemma's partner and colleague, into the case. Their investigation could exact justice for Erika, and lead them both to shocking revelations and repercussions that echo across the years.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. A Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 9780061986635 (June, 2010), 295 p., $13.99.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
'Comparisons with Elizabeth George are inevitable ... Crombie's emotionally intense, quietly yet exquisitely wrought gems have taken on a new brilliance with each offering' - "The Times".

Detective Inspector Gemma James and her family are back in their Notting Hill house and enjoying a quiet spring in London when Gemma receives a plea for help from her friend and neighbour, Erika Rosenthal. Erika has never shared much of her past, other than telling Gemma that she and her husband came to London before the war as refugees from Nazi Germany. Her long-dead husband was a historian and was found murdered. His murder was never solved. But now the elderly woman needs Gemma's help. Gemma has a tough challenge. It's a cold case and one that she has neither the time nor the resources to investigate. But then a tragic death places the investigation firmly in the present - and into the hands of her partner Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. Determined to exact justice both Gemma and Duncan hunt down a chilling killer in a case that will have lasting repercussions for everyone involved...

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. Macmillan, ISBN: 9781405090551 (August, 2009), 351 p., £16.99.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
A lifetime ago, Erika Rosenthal and her late husband, David, fled to England to escape the Nazis -- which is all Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James truly knows about her secretive friend's past. But Erika needs Gemma's help now. A family heirloom, stolen during their flight, is being sold at a prestigious London auction house. Who has had it all these years? And was Erika's husband's death more sinister than it appeared?

Hidden somewhere in the shadowy, exclusive world of London's monied society are answers to these questions, and to a shocking new murder -- one which kicks the enquiries into high gear and brings Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, Gemma's partner and colleague, into the case. Their investigation could exact justice for Erika, and lead them both to shocking revelations and repercussions that echo across the years.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. Avon Books, ISBN: 9780061287527 (June, 2009), 289 p., $7.99.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
Erika Rosenthal has always been secretive with her friend and neighbor, Detective Inspector Gemma James, about her past, except for one telling detail: She and her long-dead husband, David, came to London as refugees from Nazi Germany. But now the elderly woman needs Gemma's help. A unique piece of jewelry stolen from her years ago has mysteriously turned up at a prestigious London auction house. Erika believes the theft may be tied to her husband's death, which had always been assumed a suicide.

Gemma has a tough challenge. She must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London's monied society to discover the jewelry's connection to David's murderer. However, the cold case needs to be put back on the books and possibly into the hands of her partner, Duncan Kincaid. When a second, present-day murder kicks the investigation into high gear, Gemma becomes more determined to exact justice for Erika -- in a case that will have lasting repercussions.

Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780061287510 (June, 2008), 295 p., $24.95.