Gaslight and Fog
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Publisher Description
1888, Whitechapel. A woman wakes in a dark alley where a murder has just taken place. She can’t remember her name or how she got there. Only later does she learn the man in the alley with her was Jack the Ripper.
Soon she realizes she has been thrust more than a century into the past. And what of the fate of her daughter who was with her when this catastrophic timeslip occurred? She can only hope she too was not transported to the past. Striving to keep the secret that she is from another time, she tries to adapt to a world that is foreign to her while desperately trying to figure out how to return to her own time.
As the grisly murders pile up, Inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard wants to know who she is and how she is connected to the Ripper. To her surprise, she finds herself falling in love with the shrewd detective, but if she stays in his time, she may be the Ripper’s next victim.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Madden, who put an intriguing new spin on Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in her first novel, Helena Landless, is similarly creative in this thriller set in a Whitechapel terrorized by Jack the Ripper. Her unnamed heroine is on a tour of the area in the present when she's knocked unconscious. Awakening in 1888, she witnesses the Ripper's slaughter of prostitute Polly Nichols, though she doesn't realize at the time what she's seeing and doesn't glimpse the serial killer's face. It takes her a while to realize that she's actually trapped in the past, not the victim of a hoax. She's also hampered by amnesia. She recalls that her 19-year-old daughter, Courtney, was with her, but doesn't remember her own name. Meanwhile, she fears that the kind family that offers her a place to stay will learn the truth about her and that Inspector Abberline, who's in charge of the Ripper hunt, suspects her of being involved in the killings. Madden's careful adherence to the facts of the case helps the suspension of disbelief. (BookLife)
