June 5th--JUNE 14th
Historical Mystery Thriller:
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 sure to appeal to fans of The Sherlockian and The Alienist.
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Sunday Book Review:
Nature of
the Beast
‘The Yard’ by Alex Grecian, and More
By MARILYN
STASIO
Published:
May 25, 2012
Admit
it, Victorian mystery fans. We’ve been spoiled by the rigorous scholarship of
writers like Peter Ackroyd, lulled by the formal elegance of stylists like Anne
Perry. In short, we’ve lost touch with the lurid traditions of the 19th-century
potboiler.
Consider THE YARD (Putnam, $26.95) a crude corrective to those literary leanings. This deliciously trashy first novel by Alex Grecian walks the genre back to the era of Jack the Ripper with its bloody tale of a serial killer who is systematically butchering detectives from Scotland Yard’s recently formed Murder Squad. “Jack was the first of a new breed,” Sir Edward Bradford, the police commissioner who created this elite division, remarks. “He opened a door to certain deranged possibilities and there will be more like him.”
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Sounds good and I've never heard of the series. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
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