Book description
When Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit
his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's
pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is
instantly smitten with his cousin Lally.
But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister
discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy
barn; a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter
Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's.
Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is
living a life of self-imposed isolation, preparing for a lonely
Christmas, made more disturbing by an unexpected meeting earlier in the
day.
As the police make enquiries into the infant’s death, Kincaid discovers
that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic, and
that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and
deadly secrets . . . Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas.
After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan
Kincaid / Gemma James novel. She has since been nominated for the
Agatha, Macavity and Edgar Awards and is published across the world.
Deborah lives with her family in a small North Texas town and frequently
visits the UK. Water Like a Stone
is her eleventh novel.
