The McKinney Public Library will offer a free talk to the public by bestselling mystery writer Deborah Crombie on Thursday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m. Ms. Crombie will discuss her thirteenth and latest Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid/Sergeant Gemma James mystery, Necessary as Blood, published October 2009.
Ms. Crombie, a McKinney native, was born in Dallas, grew up in Richardson, and graduated from Austin College in Sherman with a degree in biology. Although a native Texan, her novels are set exclusively in the United Kingdom. She divides her time between Britain, where she researches her novels, and McKinney, where she shares an early Arts and Crafts bungalow with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherd dogs.
After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel, A Share in Death (Scribner, 1993), which was nominated for the Agatha and Macavity awards for Best First Novel. Her fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones (Bantam, 1997) was nominated for a Best Novel Edgar award in 1997. It was a Macavity winner, a New York Times Book of the Year, and was chosen by the Independent Mystery Booksellers of America as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century. Her subsequent award-winning novels have been published worldwide to international acclaim.
Event: Author Appearance - Deborah Crombie
Speaker: Mystery Writer and McKinney native Deborah Crombie
Where: Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt St.
When: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7 PM
Admission: Free
For more information, please call the Library at 972-547-7323, or visit www.mckinneypubliclibrary.org.
