{"product_id":"0061287547-necessary_as_blood13","title":"Necessary as Blood: 13","description":"\n\n\u003ci\u003eNecessary As Blood\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest entry in Deborah Crombie’s New York Times Notable, Edgar®, Agatha, and Macavity Awards-nominated mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. A Texan frequently compared to the masters of British crime fiction-including P.D. James, Martha Grimes, Barbara Vine, and fellow American Elizabeth George-Crombie dazzles once more with \u003ci\u003eNecessary As Blood\u003c\/i\u003e-a relentlessly suspenseful tale of a vanished mother, a murdered father, and a helpless, endangered child.\u003cp\u003eIn this dazzling addition to Deborah Crombie's acclaimed mystery series, a disappearance, a murder, and a child in danger lead Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid into London's legendary East End-a neighborhood where the rich and the poor, the ambitious and the dangerous, collide-to solve one of the most challenging and disturbing cases they've ever faced. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNecessary As Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and the avant-garde, a place where elegant Georgian town houses exist side by side with colorful street markets and the hippest clubs. But here races and cultures still clash, and the trendy galleries and glamorous nightlife of Whitechapel disguise a violent and seedy underside, where unthinkable crimes bring terror to the innocent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a beautiful Sunday afternoon in mid May, a young mother, Sandra Gilles, leaves her daughter with a friend at the Columbia Road Flower Market and disappears. Shortly thereafter, her husband, a Pakistani lawyer, is killed. Scotland Yard detective Gemma James happens upon the scene in time to witness the investigator making a mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Duncan and his trusted sergeant, Doug Cullen, see Gemma's name in the report, they decide to take the case. Working together again, Gemma, Duncan, Doug, and Melody Talbot must solve it before the murderer can get his hands on the real prize, Naz and Sandra's daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e But just as the case grows more dangerous, a personal issue threatens to throw Gemma and Duncan off the trail. In the end, it is up to them to stop a vicious killer and protect the child whose fate hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eCrime \u0026amp; Mystery\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Avon A","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":47636681719998,"sku":"0061287547-3","price":11.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/617O42xsaiL.jpg?v=1781535073","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0061287547-necessary_as_blood13","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}