The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad) - Hardcover

Grecian, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399166432 ISBN 13: 9780399166433

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2014

Synopsis

They thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.

Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestsellersThe Yard and The Black Country.

London, 1890. A small group of the city’s elite, fed up with the murder rate, have made it their business to capture violent criminals and mete out their own terrible brand of retribution. Now they are taking it a step further: They have arranged for four murderers to escape from prison, and into the group’s hands.

But the plan goes wrong. The killers elude them, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad to hunt the convicts down before they can resume their bloody spree. But the Murder Squad may already be too late. The killers have retribution in mind, and one of them is heading straight toward a member of the Murder Squad, and his family.

And that isn’t even the worst of it. During the escape, one of the killers has stumbled upon the location of another notorious murderer, one thought gone for good, but who is now prepared to join forces with them.

And Saucy Jack has learned some new tricks while he’s been away.

About this title

Review:

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)

From the Back Cover:

April, 1890.

London wakes to the shocking news of a mass prison escape.

Walter Day and the Scotland Yard Murder Squad now face a desperate race against time: if the four convicted murderers aren't recaptured before night settles, they'll vanish into the dark alleys of London's criminal underworld for ever.

And in the midst of this mayhem and fear the city's worst nightmare is realized: Jack the Ripper haunts the streets of London once more . . .

'Lusciously Rich'
Jeffery Deaver

'Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read'
Daily Express

'Gory, Lurid and tuns of guilty fun'
Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0399166432
• ISBN 13: 9780399166433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386