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Mayhem

Autor Sarah Pinborough
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2013
A new killer is stalking the streets of London's East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer', this murderer's work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames - and the heads are missing. The murderer likes to keep them. MAYHEM is a masterwork of narrative suspense: a supernatural thriller set in a shadowy, gaslit London, where monsters stalk the cobbled streets and hide in plain sight.
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ISBN-13: 9781780871264
ISBN-10: 1780871260
Pagini: 343
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția Jo Fletcher Books

Recenzii

'A huge amount of horrible fun' Big Issue. 'A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller' Guardian. 'The grim atmosphere of fear and spiritual malaise afflicting London is evoked well' SFX magazine. 'A bloody cracking thriller that sucks you in and spits you back out!' So Many Books, So Little Time. 'When writing a murder mystery/thriller, there is a fine line that one has to tread. Fortunately, Mayhem treads that fine line well' Starburst magazine. 'A brilliant supernatural horror novel, served by a sense of delicacy and understatement. Her handling of the period is superb' Spooky Reads. 'This is deliciously inventive stuff, delivered with the narrative nous and sense of atmosphere that lifts Mayhem above the raft of many similar novels' Crime Time. 'A very well-crafted chiller ... Pinborough successfully manoeuvres her story away from well-worn territory for a highly entertaining blend of crime procedural and Gothic horror' SciFi Now.

'The grim atmosphere of fear and spiritual malaise afflicting London is evoked well' SFX magazine. 'A bloody cracking thriller that sucks you in and spits you back out!' So Many Books, So Little Time. 'When writing a murder mystery/thriller, there is a fine line that one has to tread. Fortunately, Mayhem treads that fine line well' Starburst magazine. 'A brilliant supernatural horror novel, served by a sense of delicacy and understatement. Her handling of the period is superb' Spooky Reads. 'This is deliciously inventive stuff, delivered with the narrative nous and sense of atmosphere that lifts Mayhem above the raft of many similar novels' Crime Time.

'The grim atmosphere of fear and spiritual malaise afflicting London is evoked well' SFX magazine. 'A bloody cracking thriller that sucks you in and spits you back out!' So Many Books, So Little Time. 'When writing a murder mystery/thriller, there is a fine line that one has to tread. Fortunately, Mayhem treads that fine line well' Starburst magazine. 'A brilliant supernatural horror novel, served by a sense of delicacy and understatement. Her handling of the period is superb' Spooky Reads. 'This is deliciously inventive stuff, delivered with the narrative nous and sense of atmosphere that lifts Mayhem above the raft of many similar novels' Crime Time. 'A very well-crafted chiller ... Pinborough successfully manoeuvres her story away from well-worn territory for a highly entertaining blend of crime procedural and Gothic horror' SciFi Now.

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From the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. Delve into a gaslit London, where Jack the Ripper is making headlines, but another, much more dangerous, madman is on the loose.

When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn't take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night.

This is the hand of a colder killer, one who lacks Jack's emotion.

As more headless and limbless torsos find their way into the Thames Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance, he starts to wonder

Is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London, or a monster?

'A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller' Guardian.