Review: Great Addition to the Ripper Legend
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
Let me start by saying I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review; however that didn't influence my review.I've always been a big fan of anything related to Jack the Ripper; whether fiction or non-fiction and I've got a pretty good handle on the events that occurred in 1888 in Whitechapel so when I saw that this book was about the Ripper I couldn't wait to get started.  So far, every book I've read by Mr. Hopkin has been a great story that moved fast and kept me interested to the point where I didn't want to put it down at all.  This book didn't digress from that reaction. This book deals with a copy-cat killer of the original Ripper who's killing women in London who are prostitutes and have the same names as the Ripper's victims.  Throw in a honeymooning detective couple from the States & an independent profiler who was taught by the American detective as well as adding the husband- Kent, likes to rub people the wrong way when he's investigating and you have yourself a very entertaining mystery on your hands.This story has interesting characters and I got a few chuckles out of some of the things the American detective thought and said to people and on top of that you get a great mystery that links back to someone whom history considers it's first serial killer in the modern sense of the word; you can't beat it.