Ripper

Michael Slade

Casa editrice: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Sinossi

“Slade is at his peak with Ripper. A schizophrenic whodunit complete with locked rooms and self-triggering death devices. Highly enjoyable.” —Time Out London   An American feminist is found hanging, her body slashed to shreds, her face flayed. Two hookers are murdered, their corpses mutilated in a similar pattern. These gruesome deaths are only the beginning of the trail Canadian Mountie Robert DeClercq will follow as he attempts to catch a brutal psychopath. It’s a journey that takes him through the history of Satanism and the occult, searching for a serial killer’s demons. Demons all too similar to the ones that drove Jack the Ripper . . .   A revised and expanded version of the original Ripper, which was first published in 1994.   “Intense enough to require seatbelts.” —Quill & Quire   “Slade knows psychos inside out.” —Toronto Star   “Builds up to a climax almost too frantically gripping for words.” —The Northern Echo   “A shocking insight into the psyche of the insane.” —Canadian Lawyer

Disponibile da: 06/08/2024.

Lunghezza di stampa: 250 pagine.

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