Article: A missing wife and other brutalities.(BOOKS)(MYSTERIES)(Column)

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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