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Deborah Crombie
Who Would
You Like to Kill?
 Deborah
Crombie grew up near Dallas, Texas, but from a
child always had the inexplicable feeling that
she belonged in England. After earning a
Bachelor's degree in Biology from Austin College
in Sherman, Texas, she made her first trip to
Britain and felt she'd come home.
During her marriage to her first husband, a
Scot, she lived in both Chester, England, and
Edinburgh, Scotland, where she failed to make as
good a use of being cold and poor as JK
Rowling.It was not until almost a decade later
that, living once more in Texas and raising her
small daughter, she had the idea for her first
novel, a mystery set in Yorkshire. She had no
credentials other than a desire to write and a
severe case of homesickness for Britain. A Share
in Death, published in 1993, was short-listed
for both Agatha and Macavity awards for Best
First Novel and was awarded the
Macavity.Crombie's fifth novel, Dreaming of the
Bones, was a New York Times Notable Book in
1997, was named by the Independent Mystery
Booksellers as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels
of the Century, was an Edgar nominee for Best
Novel, and won the Macavity award for Best
Novel.Subsequent novels have been published to
critical acclaim and in a dozen languages.
Crombie's thirteenth novel featuring
Metropolitan Police detectives Superintendent
Duncan Kincaid and Inspector Gemma James,
Necessary as Blood, will be published by Harper
Collins in 2009.The author still lives in Texas
but spends several months out of the year in
Britain, maintaining a precarious balance
between the two, and occasionally confusing her
cultural references.
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