And Justice There Is None
The life of Scotland Yard's Gemma James is changing in major ways--she's  just been promoted to Inspector, she's pregnant, and she and her young son are  about to move into spacious new digs with her lover, Detective Superintendent  Duncan Kincaid. Then the beautiful young wife of a Portobello Road antiques  dealer is murdered in the driveway of her Notting Hill home and the case lands  in Gemma's disappearing lap. Dawn Arrowood, as Gemma soon discovers, was  pregnant when she died, most likely by Alex Dunn, a porcelain dealer in  Portobello Market whose disappearance after the murder makes him a prime  suspect. But Gemma rules him out as the killer, focusing her investigation on  Karl Arrowood, the dead woman's husband. When Karl is murdered, she's stymied,  but then Kincaid's investigation into what may be a serial killer turns up a  bizarre connection to Gemma's case and a link to Karl Arrowood's sideline as a  drug smuggler. As usual, Crombie handles a complicated plot with style,  providing enough twists and turns to hold the reader's attention while driving  the narrative to a stunning conclusion.--Jane Adams