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Title details for River of Fallen Angels by Laura Joh Rowland - Available

River of Fallen Angels

#7 in series

by Laura Joh Rowland
Jodie Harris
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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, and their discord threatens not only the investigation but also 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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Victorian Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 10, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666628319
      • File size: 338676 KB
      • Duration: 11:45:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 7, 2022
      Set in 1891 London, Rowland’s disappointing seventh Victorian mystery (after 2022’s Garden of Sins) depends on an improbable premise: Sarah Bain Barrett and two colleagues who are “crime photographers and reporters for the Daily World newspaper, covering mainly the East End,” have a special arrangement with the police: in exchange for publicizing police investigations to help them “catch killers,” the Daily World is given confidential information. Barrett hopes this arrangement will help crack a serial killer case after a woman’s body, apparently the latest victim of the Thames Torso Murderer, washes up at her feet while she’s covering an accident on the Thames. But the officer in charge, Insp. Edmund Reid, who believes that the Torso Murderer and Jack the Ripper are the same and that Barrett is withholding information about the Ripper, cuts her newspaper out of the inquiry. Aided by her husband, Thomas, a detective sergeant conveniently assigned to Reid’s Torso Task Force, Barrett and her colleagues search for the truth. The plot construction and characterizations fall short of the standard set by the author’s superior Sano Ichiro series. Historical mystery fans can safely pass. Agent: Pam Ahearn, Ahearn Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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