Simisola (v.o.)Hutchinson, 1994 - 323 pages In an English town, Inspector Wexford investigates attacks on black women which lead to murder. A study of the slave-like condition of foreign domestics in Britain, who are not given the status of immigrants so they can be deported if they agitate for more money. |
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... hair tied back in a ponytail ; another very short one with fair curly hair and a black boy with dreadlocks and one of those big floppy knitted caps . Assessing them like this , he realized what he had done , what he had told Burden ...
... hair tied back in a ponytail ; another very short one with fair curly hair and a black boy with dreadlocks and one of those big floppy knitted caps . Assessing them like this , he realized what he had done , what he had told Burden ...
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... hair , as greasy as Kimberley's , was plaited for an inch or two before being tied with a shoelace . Inside the open neck of his shirt , under the fuzz of dark hair , could be seen the greenish - blue , red and black inks of an ...
... hair , as greasy as Kimberley's , was plaited for an inch or two before being tied with a shoelace . Inside the open neck of his shirt , under the fuzz of dark hair , could be seen the greenish - blue , red and black inks of an ...
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... hair . Karen went up to the counter where a woman was dispensing orders as they came through from the back . It was a semi - open plan arrangement and Mark Ling could be seen in the gleaming steel kitchen as he conjured with half a ...
... hair . Karen went up to the counter where a woman was dispensing orders as they came through from the back . It was a semi - open plan arrangement and Mark Ling could be seen in the gleaming steel kitchen as he conjured with half a ...
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