Necessary as Blood - Couverture souple

Crombie, Deborah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330505882 ISBN 13 : 9780330505888

Editeur : Pan Books, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Once the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and the avant-garde, 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 disguise a violent and seedy underside.

Sandra Gilles, a young mother, leaves her daughter with a friend and then disappears on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in May. Shortly thereafter, her husband, a Pakistani lawyer, is killed. Scotland Yard detective Gemma James happens upon the scene—and soon she and Duncan Kincaid, her life partner and colleague, are on the trail of a murderer. But the investigation grows darker and more dangerous at every turned corner, and the true prize must be protected at all costs: a beautiful, orphaned little girl, not yet three, whose life now hangs in the balance.

Revue de presse :

Crombie once again has created a seamlessly British murder mystery, in the tradition of P.D. James and Barbara Vine...She has the language, fashion, geography and weather down pat, not to mention an affinity for Dickensian history and the attention she pays to crime detail and investigative procedure. --San Antonio Express-News on IN A DARK HOUSE

[She] gets better with each book . . . lyrical, biting, and evocative. --Cleveland Plain Dealer

To balance Kincaid s cool reserve as an imperturbable observer of human folly, Ms. Crombie gives him a warm, outgoing sergeant in young Gemma James. Like everything else about this first mystery, it s a well calculated move that pays off smartly. --New York Times Book Review on A SHARE IN DEATH

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330505882
• ISBN 13: 9780330505888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512