Necessary As Blood 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 Necessary As Blood -a relentlessly suspenseful tale of a vanished mother, a murdered father, and a helpless, endangered child.
Deborah Crombie is a New York Times bestselling author and a native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland. She now lives in McKinney, Texas, sharing a house that is more than one hundred years old with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherds.
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