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Gillian White. Simon & Schuster, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-684-85542-9
The author of 10 novels previously published in Britain, White makes her American debut with this atmospheric though uneven thriller, set in a remote corner of Dartmoor, in the southwest of England. Conscientious, middle-aged London social worker Georgie Jefferson is publicly vilified when an abused little girl under her supervision is killed by her father. Wracked with guilt and remorse, she retreats to a cottage' in the tiny Dartmoor town of Wooton-Coney, deeded to her after the suicide of her older brother, Stephen, a reclusive painter. Stephen left home before Georgie was born, and Georgie was not …