Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 8/22/2018 + 1031 more book reviews

13th in the series with Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and Gemma James of the Metropolitan Police. James is having lunch with her best friend Hazel, when Hazel's ex-husband calls hoping for assistance in finding a friend who's disappeared, leaving his 3 year old daughter at home with the nanny. The mother had disappeared months earlier. James is smitten with the child, has a bad feeling about the whole situation and when the father's body is found, has Kincaid get it assigned to his team at Scotland Yard. Crombie sets this book in Spitalfields, once a section in London for silk merchants but in this book now a Bangladeshi neighborhood. Lots of threads weave into a dark web of human trafficking. This series is heavily into the personal lives of Kincaid and James, which I really like, and a couple sub-plots are finally resolved here. My biggest complaint has to do with the formatting - there are many pages of prologue set in italics which I find irritating to read. Otherwise, a nice entry and I'm looking forward to the next one

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