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March 14, 2010
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 | Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: Morrow
http://www.randomhouse.com
ISBN: 0061287512
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Mystery
Release date: June 2008
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 385
Price: $24.95
| David and Erika Rosenthal escaped from Nazi Germany during WWII. They settled in London, where she became a professor and he a philosopher until he was murdered in 1952 while investigating neo-Nazi sympathizers. His homicide remains an unsolved cold case. Erika is stunned when family friend Henri Durrell shows her a diamond brooch in a Harrowby’s auction catalogue; because they recognize the name and the picture as hers, lost, probably stolen, years ago.
Erika asks her friend police inspector Gemma James to investigate; Gemma and her Scotland Yard partner, Duncan Kincaid, activate the cold case to investigate how the brooch got to the auction house. However the case is already odd, as auction house clerk Kristin Cahill has died in a mysterious hit and run. Soon others involved in the sale also die; as the cops know WWII, 1952, and the present tie together but struggle with finding the culprit.
This is an exciting English police procedural filled with growing tension from the moment a distraught Erika calls Gemma. The story line is fast-paced, even when the plot flashbacks to 1952 focusing on David’s inquiries into Neo-Nazis. Sub-genre fans will appreciate this strong tale as Deborah Crombie provides a wonderful investigative thriller. | | |
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