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"Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims' body parts, minus the heads. With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond has lost the ability to sleep. True, a growing dependency on opium affords him some solace in his loneliest and most desperate hours, but he also fears the grip of the drug"--Dust jacket flap.
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Dr. Thomas Bond is a 1-book series first released in 2013 with contributions by Sarah Pinborough.
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After reading Behind Her Eyes, I was interested in reading another one of Pinborough's books. This one is a novel about the Thames Torso Murders that were taking place when Jack the Ripper was active in London. At the time, many believed the killers were one and the same. t's hard to believe the Torso Murders have not gotten more notoriety (or at least I wasn't well aware of them). The book seems well-researched. I looked up some details as I was reading and ended up in a few rabbit holes myself. She uses a supernatural spin, which I think makes the book fun and exciting. It's pretty gory, obviously, but I will definitely read Murder, the second of two books in this series.
A solid supernatural mystery that is very evocative of late Victorian London. Nothing wrong with it, but it just didn't quite have that extra zing to lift it that I could have done with. I preferred the author's Dog Faced Gods trilogy, but I'll be looking out for the sequel to this one anyway.
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