Deborah Crombie

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| birth_name = Deborah Darden

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| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.

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| alma_mater = Austin College

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| genre = Mystery

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| notableworks = Dreaming of the Bones

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Macavity Award, 1998, 2009
New York Times Book of the Year, 1997

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Deborah Crombie (née Darden) is an American author of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|last1=Donoghue|first1=Steve|title=Book review: 'No Mark Upon Her' by Deborah Crombie|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-no-mark-upon-her-by-deborah-crombie/2012/01/17/gIQAGddZcR_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=17 January 2012|language=en-US}} Crombie was raised in Richardson, Texas, and has lived in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.deborahcrombie.com/index.php/biography|work=Deborah Crombie website|accessdate=27 March 2014}} She now lives in McKinney, Texas.

Crombie studied biology at Austin Collegepage 55, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, {{ISBN|0-313-33428-5}} and was a writing student of Warren Norwood at Tarrant County College.

Bibliography

Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James series

A Share in Death (1993; {{ISBN|978-0-425-14197-7}})
All Shall be Well (1994; {{ISBN|978-0-684-19654-1}})
Leave the Grave Green (1995; {{ISBN|978-0-684-19770-8}})
Mourn Not Your Dead (1996; {{ISBN|978-0-684-80131-5}})
Dreaming of the Bones (1997; {{ISBN|978-0-684-80141-4}})
Kissed a Sad Goodbye (1999; {{ISBN|978-0-553-10943-6}})
A Finer End (2001; {{ISBN|978-0-553-10956-6}})
And Justice There is None (2002; {{ISBN|978-0-553-10973-3}})
Now May You Weep (2003; {{ISBN|978-0-06-052523-1}})
In a Dark House (2005; {{ISBN|978-1-4050-3441-8}})
Water Like a Stone (2007; {{ISBN|978-0-06-052527-9}})
Where Memories Lie (2008; {{ISBN|978-0-06-128751-0}})
Necessary as Blood (2009; {{ISBN|978-0-06-128753-4}})
"Nocturne" (2012; short story, limited-edition e-book){{Cite web|url=https://www.overdrive.com/media/681334/nocturne-with-bonus-material|title=Nocturne with Bonus Material|website=OverDrive|access-date=2019-07-30}}
No Mark upon Her (2012; {{ISBN|978-0-06-199061-8}})
The Sound of Broken Glass (2013; {{ISBN|978-0-06-199063-2}})
To Dwell in Darkness (2014; {{ISBN|978-0-06-227160-0}})
Garden of Lamentations (2017; {{ISBN|978-006227163-1}}){{Cite web|url=http://www.deborahcrombie.com/index.php/the-books|title = The Books}}
A Bitter Feast (2019; {{ISBN|9780062986788}})
A Killing of Innocents (2023; {{isbn|978-0062993397}})