Necessary as Blood

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Review #1

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NECESSAY AS BLOOD novel is a crucial part of this marvelous crime series because it both marks and explains the arrival of the lovely three-year-old Charlotte in the lives of Duncan and Gemma—and their two charming and utterly real sons. As always with Deborah Crombie, the crime storyline is thoroughly engaging with an outcome impossible (at least for me) to predict. Moreover, this novel has all the fine hallmarks of every Crombie novel: brilliant plotting, extraordinary character development, supple prose, superb use of physical and sensory detail, remarkable yet down-to-earth wisdom, not to mention an oceanic compassion for the suffering human race. Man, this writer is good!

Review #2

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I would have preferred a 3-1/2 stars option, but I gave it the higher mark because of my appreciation for this series. The mystery of who was behind the disappearance of a talented artist and the murder of her husband, leaving an emotionally fragile toddler an apparent orphan, was a terrific “hook” to catch the reader and set up a narrative for the reader to care that such an apparently heartless villain be caught. The plot does have several suspects and a bit too many red herrings which tie up the narrative during the lengthy middle of this book. I’m not going to spoil this book for other fans of Deborah Crombie by revealing too much about the plot devices, but I will praise Ms Crombie that this plot is topical and the villain behind the disappearance and murder(s) is worthy of the title psychopath.

Some reviewers have said this book is short on crime and too long on personal development. Don’t they realize this is why we read these series? Besides, a disappearance, a murder, drug dealing and child tracking is PLENTY of crime for me!

Review #3

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Every time I end up reading faster and faster and longer and longer to find out what happened – not just who the guilty party is but what’s going on in the lives of Kincaid and James and the people around them.

Every book in this series is multi-layered with several plots running through each one and they overlap, interweave, and bounce off each other until somehow Crombie merges them into a whole with each plot playing a part in the others. This entry is no exception.

My only gripe about this book is when the main story started, it seemed as if it was taking place within days or weeks of the prolog. It wasn’t until several pages later that it became clear that the prolog occurred months earlier.

One of my comments on an earlier novel in the series suggested Crombie wrap up some ongoing story lines that I thought had stretched too long. Evidently, she heard me, for both are tied up in this entry.

I have the next two books in the series in my ‘to read’ pile and the urge to pick the next one up and dive into it is so strong, it’s almost overwhelming. That desire to read more is the sign of a good series.

Review #4

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Another great read in this series by this very fine author. Maybe not quite 5 stars but rounded up to that. Maybe the characters wandered around a bit this time out but I am off to the next one in the series.Wondering what and how they incorporate Charlotte into the family..And the wedding. and Melody and Cullen.

Not to forget the clash of cultures in this outing in London’s East End. A real who dunnit which continued almost to the very end. A terrific series!

Review #5

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It’s hard for a mystery novelist to sustain a long-running series with the same set of detectives. In some cases, I end up wondering just how many bodies some communities generate over the year; in other cases, the author himself or herself seems to be wearying of their task, and end up delivering predictable and ho-hum books. A few successfully develop new characters (Natasha Cooper has already done this once, the writing team of Charles Todd seems to be trying to do the same.)

Then there’s Deborah Crombie, whose 13th offering in the series of police procedurals featuring Duncan Kincaid and his fiancee and fellow police officer Gemma James is one of her best yet. There are no fictional pyrotechnics, homicidal lunatics, no piling up of corpses at every turn — there isn’t even really a vast global conspiracy theory. There are just a collection of fallible and sometimes malicious or callous individuals, whose actions or inactions have consequences for all around them.

In this particular character-driven mystery, a young mother named Sandra Gilles simply vanishes one day, leaving her toddler daughter with a family friend for what she promises will just be an hour or two. Then, months later, her husband also disappears; Charlotte, the 3-year-old daughter, can say only that her Mummy went away and her Daddy went to look for her. Gemma and Duncan share mutual friends with Naz, Charlotte’s father and a Pakistani-born lawyer, and are in on the case early, even before the first dead body shows up. From then on, they work together and separately to resolve the mystery and help create the best possible future for Charlotte, who, if they don’t act, may end up living with her maternal grandmother despite the presence of two drug-dealing uncles and the fact that Sandra had no contact with her family.

The plot itself is complex but adeptly handled so that it never feels so; the characters are all plausible and the settings so vivid that I remain astonished that Crombie is an American and not a Londoner. There’s nothing here to stretch the reader’s credulity. Best of all, Crombie manages to blend the plot with the developments in Duncan’s and Gemma’s real lives (they are trying to find a way to marry that will keep everyone happy, as Gemma’s mother must cope with a recurrence of her cancer — disclosed very early on in the book, so not a spoiler!). There are no simple answers to either their personal challenges or to the mystery of what happened to Sandra or Naz, but Crombie ably walks the narrow line between giving away too many clues or emerging at the last moment with an improbable solution to the crime.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes character-driven mysteries. This isn’t as elegantly written as P.D. James, or as complex as Elizabeth George’s books, but anyone who relishes their characters should enjoy this series. It could be read as a stand-alone book, but there are frequent references throughout to events dealt with in previous episodes of the duo’s personal and professional partnership, so I’d suggest starting your reading back with  A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels) , Crombie’s debut, still in print more than 15 years later. Fans of the author will find this is one of the best of her recent books.

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