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Article: A missing wife and other brutalities.(BOOKS)(MYSTERIES)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Muriel Dobbin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The kaleidoscopic scene of London's East End is brought into sharp focus by its emphasis on a frightened and orphaned 2-year-old girl in Necessary as Blood (Morrow, $24.99, 384 pages), a most readable addition to Deborah Crombie's mystery series.
She delivers a detailed and carefully researched account of a city scene haunted in the past by Jack the Ripper and still riddled with 21st-century crimes involving drugs and child abuse. Her use of a detailed street map of the old city enhances the graphic depiction of its history. Yet this time around, the author has deepened the psychological depths of ...
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July 31, 2008 ;
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... ... attacked her in a fit of rage. Lilian Carney has been looking after Gemma James at her home in Tintern Crescent, North Shields, for years ... and ordered to live at another address. CAPTION(S): RAGE: Gemma James admitted assault
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