Sarah Pinborough

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Mayhem and Murder Book I

From the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. Delve into a gaslit London, where Jack the Ripper is making headlines, but another, much more dangerous, madman is on the loose.

When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn't take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night.

This is the hand of a colder killer, one who lacks Jack's emotion.

And, as more headless and limbless torsos find their way into the Thames, Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance, he starts to wonder:

Is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London, or a monster?

'A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller' Guardian

Mayhem

f5a928bb-5206-450f-8a60-8aa27a9c3373-1

"a new supernatural-whodunit-polyphonic thriller for those not of the faint of heart" --Fort Worth Telegram


"Pinborough's fiction moves at a breakneck pace. Once you start, you can't stop." --Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper and The Missing


Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims' body parts, minus the heads.


With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond has lost the ability to sleep. True, a growing dependency on opium affords him some solace in his loneliest and most desperate hours, but he also fears the grip of the drug.

During Dr. Bond's nightly tours of London's underbelly in search of pharmaceutical respite from the horrors that plague him by day, he encounters a mysterious Jesuit priest scouring the opium dens himself, clearly in search of someone--or something. The doctor at first rejects the strange priest's unnatural theories about the Torso Killer as an affront to scientific thought. But over time Dr. Bond's opium-addled mind begins to crumble under the growing impression that there might be some awful truth to the Jesuit's ideas.

As the police struggle to capture two serial killers, the troubled forensics expert begins to suspect that he may actually know the Torso Killer personally. If he is right, Dr. Bond will need all the strength he can muster to save his small circle of loved ones from falling victim to the bloody depravities of this twisted creature.



Category - Fiction / Horror

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - A year ago

Views - 15

Wishes - 1

Ships From - Texas

Est. Publication Date - Apr 2013

Seller Description

Additional Information

Publisher Description

Tags

Mayhem

By:

$5.00

Condition

Format

Meet the seller

Discover more

Mayhem

By: Sarah Pinborough

'Mayhem' readers also enjoyed:

Additional titles by Sarah Pinborough

Recently Viewed

Browse by categories

Category - Fiction / Horror

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - A year ago

Views - 15

Wishes - 1

Ships From - Texas

Est. Publication Date - Apr 2013

Seller Description

Additional Information

Publisher Description

Tags

Mayhem

By:

$5.00

Condition

Format

Meet the seller

Discover more

Mayhem

By: Sarah Pinborough

'Mayhem' readers also enjoyed:

Additional titles by Sarah Pinborough

Recently Viewed