Review: Immensely entertaining
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
Madison Kent’s ‘Stalking Jack’ offers a unique take on the Jack the Ripper murder mystery. Author Madison places a female character sniffing the track of the mysterious murderer—the result is a suspense novel that is as gripping as it is unforgettable.In the book, Madeline Donovan is not exactly the type of woman who would put herself in harm’s way. But there’s something about the news reports about the series of mysterious murders in London that gets her goat. She feels a pang of empathy for the victims—women all, and poor—and, thanks to a series of seeming coincidences that include a New York Times reporter, Madeline decides to go to the last place on earth a woman should go to in 1888: Whitechapel, the Ground Zero for Jack the Ripper’s murders.The author has the uncanny knack for painting an evocative, eerie atmosphere that throbs with suspense. The fact that the main character, Madeline, may be the most vulnerable sleuth to ever have the “balls” to dip her arm in the whole Jack the Ripper thing makes this book quite an edge-of-your-seat (although immensely entertaining) read—you can’t help but see shadows on the walls and treat every stray sound as if the death-knell to a fatal stab.Overall, if you like an intelligently written “period” suspense novel, ‘Stalking Jack’ would be right up your alley.  Well-researched and exquisitely written, with the right amount of verisimilitude to enable the reader to fully suspend their disbelief, ‘Stalking Jack’ is one of those novels you will talk about for a long while. Get a copy of this today—enjoyment guaranteed.