Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy. Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series #1.
“The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.”
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens, but no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own…one of the twelve. When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad…but why?
Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures, this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology, and introduces a stunning new cast of characters.
Read Alikes for The Yard: The Black Country by Alex Grecian; Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell; The Alienist by Caleb Carr; Children of the Fog by David Ashton
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy. Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series #1.
“The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.”
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens, but no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own…one of the twelve. When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad…but why?
Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures, this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology, and introduces a stunning new cast of characters.
Read Alikes for The Yard: The Black Country by Alex Grecian; Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell; The Alienist by Caleb Carr; Children of the Fog by David Ashton
ISBN 978-0-425-26127-9
Alex Grecian
2012
