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Dr. Thomas Bond

Step into the gaslit streets of Victorian London, where alongside the infamous Jack the Ripper, a more calculating and sinister killer stalks the shadows. Follow a dedicated police surgeon as he unravels a gruesome series of dismembered bodies, drawing him into a world of dark secrets and supernatural horror. This gripping series masterfully blends historical crime with chilling supernatural elements, pushing the boundaries of a conventional murder mystery into terrifying territory.

Mayhem
Murder

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    Mayhem

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(2409)Add rating

    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. 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
  2. 2

    Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from Jack the Ripper's depredations when he haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. But now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames... and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.

    Murder