The Harvest Man
Scotland Yard Murder Squad Book 4
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Murder Squad 4: Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London.
Spring 1890.
The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with London's most feared killer. He alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large.
But, worse is to come for Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. A new killer is terrorizing the citizens of London. They call him the Harvest Man; he hides away in the attics of the unsuspecting, emerging at night to terrorize his victims.
This macabre new threat requires Inspector Day to confront his demons, but he soon discovers that the Ripper himself continues to toy with Scotland Yard's finest. The game has only just begun . . .
Praise for Alex Grecian's Scotland Yard Murder Squad Series:
'Will keep you riveted from page one' Jeffery Deaver
'CSI: Victorian London' Daily Express
'Throw in deranged prostitutes, poisonings and throat slittings galore, amidst lashings of London fog. Gory, lurid and tons of guilty fun' Guardian
'Lusciously rich' Jeffery Deaver
'Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read' Daily Express
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In 2014's The Devil's Workshop, Jack the Ripper targeted Insp. Walter Day and his loved ones, having escaped the clutches of the Karstphanomen, a group of vigilantes who had captured and tortured the Ripper and whose ranks included Adrian March, a retired inspector who was once Day's mentor. Now, in Grecian's formulaic fourth late-Victorian crime novel, Day must contend with not only the Ripper but also the Harvest Man, a sadist who lurks in his victims' attics before overpowering couples and slicing their faces to ribbons as part of his twisted search for his parents. The loyal Nevil Hammersmith, who has left the London police force after yet another close brush with death, assists Day. Hammersmith's passion for bringing killers to book is one of the high points in an installment that suffers from underdeveloped characters and routine plotting. This isn't close to the series's best, 2013's The Black Country.
