Necessary as Blood

Macavity Award winner Deborah Crombie has received critical acclaim for her Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Scotland Yard detectives series. In Necessary as Blood, Crombie paints a surreal portrait of a brutal killer terrorizing London’s East End.

After a young mother disappears, Superintendent Kincaid and his partner Sergeant James are called in to investigate. And when their prime suspect—the missing woman’s husband—turns up dead, they struggle to find solid evidence and suspects. But just as the pieces of the puzzle come together, they realize the couple’s young daughter is the killer’s real prize—and now they are in a race to save the girl and bring a criminal to justice before time runs out.