Crooked Lane Books
Featuring: Sarah Bain Barrett; Thomas Barrett
ISBN: 1639101519 EAN: 9781639101511 Kindle: B09XM4XZMG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The seventh installment in Laura Joh Rowland’s Victorian mystery series finds Daily World crime reporter/photographer Sarah Barrett at the scene of a gruesome discovery when a torso washes ashore on the River Thames in RIVER OF FALLEN ANGELS.
It is 1891 London and Jack the Ripper is still on the loose when a woman’s torso is found. Inspector Reid thinks the killer is one and the same, but Sarah knows it can’t be true. She is determined to identify the Torso Murderer. Sarah is joined in her investigative efforts by her unconventional group of family members including sister Sally Albert, disgraced Lord Hugh Staunton, former street urchin Mick O’Reilly, husband Detective Sergeant Thomas Barrett, and psychologist Dr. Joshua Lewes.
As the group embarks on different endeavors, Sarah and her husband are at odds on which course of action they should take. Detective Barrett is not happy about being assigned morgue duty, but he also wants to pursue two former suspects in the ripper case including a violent barber and a secretive midwife. Sarah feels locating missing women and determining their connection to a charismatic religious leader and his followers at Haven of Love is the right course of action. Both investigations lead to dangerous encounters and surprising revelations. Sarah is sure they are closing in on the truth, but is she putting her husband in an impossible situation, and will their marriage survive their latest investigation?
RIVER OF FALLEN ANGELS begins with a gruesome discovery and draws readers in from the start. Sarah is a complex, competent protagonist who struggles with her dark side. She is tenacious in her pursuit of justice and understands the criminal world. Her assembled group of friends and family have a vast array of skills and knowledge. Their combined efforts to solve crimes are interesting and entertaining. The story is well-done with several high-stakes moments and critical revelations that lead to an explosive ending. There are many references to earlier cases, which will pique the interest of new readers to check out earlier novels in the series. Overall, this historical Victorian mystery is both entertaining and immersive, drawing readers in and taking them on a harrowing journey to uncover a brutal murderer who is dismembering women and discarding them in the RIVER OF FALLEN ANGELS.
Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the seventh in her critically acclaimed Victorian mystery series in which Sarah Bain Barrett is pitted against a true-crime serial killer who may have ties to Jack the Ripper.
London, April 1891. When the severed torso of a woman washes up on the bank of the river Thames, London believes a serial killer from the past has struck again. Crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is on the scene with her friends Mick O’Reilly and Lord Hugh Staunton. This is their chance to solve a grisly cold case and deliver a monster to belated justice, with help from Sarah’s husband Detective Sergeant Thomas Barrett; her sister Sally Albert, an intrepid newspaper reporter; and Hugh’s psychologist, Dr. Joshua Lewes, who’s a pioneer in the new science of criminal profiling. But the opportunity brings troubles galore: Sarah and her husband can’t agree on what direction their inquiries should take. Barrett favors concentrating on two shady characters he knows from his days a a patrol constable in Whitechapel, while Sarah suspects the charismatic leader of a polygamous religious sect from which at least one woman has gone missing. Their discord threatens not only the investigation but their marriage.
To complicate matters, Sarah’s bitter enemy, Inspector Reid, is leading the police’s hunt for the killer they’re calling the Torso Murderer. Obsessed with the Ripper case and his own failure to solve it, he thinks the Ripper and the Torso Murderer are one and the same person—a notion that could steer the police investigation disastrously off course. Hot in pursuit of the killer, Reid is also hell-bent on discovering what Sarah and company have been hiding about the Ripper.
The Torso Murder case threatens to expose a dangerous truth, tear apart Sarah’s close-knit band of comrades, and send them to the gallows before they can put the killer out of action.
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