VJ Books Presents Deborah Crombie!

Deborah Crombie was born in Dallas and grew up in Richardson, Texas.  A rather solitary childhood (brother Steve is ten years older) was blessed by her maternal grandmother, Lillian Dozier, a retired teacher who taught her to read very early. After a rather checkered educational career, which included dropping out of high school at sixteen, she graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, with a degree in biology.

She then worked in advertising and newspapers, and attended the Rice University Publishing Program. A post-university trip to England, however, cemented a life-long passion for Britain, and she later immigrated to the UK with her first husband, Peter Crombie, a Scot, living first in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then in Chester, England.

 After returning to Dallas and working for several years in her family business while raising her daughter Kayti, she wrote her first Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid/Sergeant Gemma James novel. A Share in Death was subsequently given Agatha and Macavity nominations for Best First Novel of 1993. The fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones, a New York Times Notable Book for 1997, was short-listed by Mystery Writers of America for the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel, won the Macavity award for Best Novel, and was voted by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the hundred best mysteries of the century. Her subsequent novels have been received with critical acclaim and are widely read internationally, particularly in Germany.  In 2009, Where Memories Lie won the Macacity Award for Best Novel.  In 2010, Necessary as Blood received a Macavity nomination for Best Novel.

 

Crombie now lives in McKinney, Texas, sharing a 1905 house with her husband, Rick Wilson, two German shepherds (Hallie and Neela), and three cats. She is currently working on her fifteenth Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel, as yet untitled.

 

 

Deborah Crombie Bibliography

 

 

Duncan Kincaid Series

 

1.     A Share in Death - 1994

2.     All Shall Be Well - 1994

3.     Leave the Grave Green - 1995

4.     Mourn Not Your Dead - 1996

5.     Dreaming of the Bones - 1997

6.     Kissed a Sad Goodbye - 1999

7.     A Finer End - 2001

8.     And Justice There is None - 2002

9.     Now May You Weep - 2003

10.  In a Dark House - 2004

11.  Water Like a Stone - 2007

12.  Where Memories Lie - 2008

13.  Necessary as Blood - 2009

14.  No Mark Upon Her - Coming February 2012

 

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