The Yard (Murder Squad 1) Book

A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed Murder Squad of Scotland Yard made up of just twelve detectives battles in vain against the tide of violence and cruelty. When the body of a Yard detective is found in a suitcase his lips sewn together and his eyes sewn shut it becomes clear that not even the police are safe from attack. Has the Ripper returned - or is a new killer at large? Walter Day the squad's newest recruit is assigned the case and finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic pathologist Dr Bernard Kingsley. Kingsley a pioneer of groundbreaking forensic science is convinced that strange new techniques such as finger printing are the key to finding the person responsible. With Kingsley's help will Day find the murderer before it's too late? Or are the police once again helpless to stop a serial killer whose brutality knows no limits?Read More