All shall be well - deborah crombie

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate the bizarre murder of a woman who was dying anyway, her body ravaged by disease.

As they sift through the womans history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape.

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep.

At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease.

It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable.

But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered.

But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead womans strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape -- a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime .

and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.