What if everything you've ever heard about Jack the Ripper is wrong ... A young woman is brutally murdered in Washington D.C., and the killer leaves behind a calling card connected to some of the most infamous murders in history. Jack the Ripper Rookie homicide investigator Erin Prince instinctively knows the moment she sees the mutilated body that it’s only a matter of time before someone else dies. She and her partner, Todd Brooks, are on the trail of a madman, and a third body sends them in the direction they feared a serial killer is walking the streets of D.C. The clock is ticking. Erin must push past her mounting self-doubt in order to unravel a web of secrets filled with drugs, pornography, and a decades-old family skeleton before the next victim is sacrificed. The only way to stop a killer is to beat them at their own game. SOME MATURE TOPICS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE
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TW: mentions of rape, torture, (brutal/dark)porn, prostitution, sexual/child abuse, murder and violence.
A new female homicide detective must prove herself, and that she is more than just her last name. But she is not above using that name to open a few doors if it helps her solve her murder case. While there were slower moments in the book, I really enjoyed reading it. The female MC had moments of self-doubt, but she never gave up and promised to find out what happened to the murdered victims even while dealing with some very intense personal trauma.
Ties and references to Jack the Ripper were a smart and integral part of the story that get my true crime history synapses firing. I was invested in the characters, good or bad and I was surprising relieved that there was no romance in the plot; that the main male character (her partner) was happily in a relationship with someone else and there were sparks or boundary lines crossed.
This was a great serial killer, crime fiction and I look forward to reading more from Green in the future.
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