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Necessary as Blood
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Recorded Books, Inc. 2010
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Macavity Award-winning author Deborah Crombie paints a vivid portrait of England's seedy underbelly in Necessary as Blood. As a brutal killer stalks the innocent of Whitechapel, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James pick up the trail.
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Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
02/04/2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781456113476
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Deborah Crombie. (2010). Necessary as Blood. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Deborah Crombie. 2010. Necessary As Blood. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Deborah Crombie, Necessary As Blood. Recorded Books, Inc, 2010.

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Deborah Crombie. Necessary As Blood. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2010.

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        Romance dominates Crombie's 13th contemporary procedural featuring Scotland Yarders Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid, who are on the verge of getting married (after 2008's Where Memories Lie
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