Water like a stone - deborah crombie

Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jamess idyllic holiday is interrupted by murder.

As the detectives are drawn deeper, they find that the past never truly dies--and not even Kincaids family is safe from harm.

Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner, Sergeant Gemma James, take their sons to picturesque Cheshire for their first family Christmas with Duncans parents--a holiday both dreaded and anticipated.

But not even the charming town of Nantwich and the dreaming canals can mask the tensions in Duncans family, which are tragically heightened by the discovery of an infants body hidden in the wall of an old dairy.

As Duncan and Gemma help the police investigate the infants death, another murder strikes closer to home, revealing that far from being idyllic, Duncans childhood paradise holds dark and deadly secrets .

secrets that threaten everything and everyone Duncan and Gemma hold most dear.