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Zusatztext Bloody brilliant! Informationen zum Autor Sarah Pinborough is the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ! as well as two dozen adult and YA novels. Her gothic thrillers Mayhem and Murder ! and the critically acclaimed novella The Language of Dying ! are published by Jo Fletcher Books. She is also a screenwriter who has written for the BBC and has several original television projects in development. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahpinborough Klappentext A new killer is stalking the streets of London's East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer'! this murderer's work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too! but their dismembered bodies! wrapped in rags and tied up with string! are pulled out of the Thames - and the heads are missing. The murderer likes to keep them. MAYHEM is a masterwork of narrative suspense: a supernatural thriller set in a shadowy! gaslit London! where monsters stalk the cobbled streets and hide in plain sight. Delve into a gaslit London in this 'compulsively readable murder mystery' ( Guardian ) by the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes . Jack the Ripper may be making the headlines, but another, much more dangerous, madman is loose on the streets. Zusammenfassung 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 ...
