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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco

Stalking Jack the Ripper #1

young adult romance(183k)

A Victorian lord's daughter secretly studies forensic medicine — and hunts Jack the Ripper.

Content Warnings
violence/goredeath of loved one

Description

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her back to her own sheltered world. The story's shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling, #1 New York Times bestselling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget.

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