Murder – Mayhem #2 – Sarah Pinborough

Release date: May 1st, 2014
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Age Group: Adult
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Dr. Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from the event of the previous year when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London – and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible.

But now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames… and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.

Review:

‘Murder’ is the sequel to ‘Mayhem’, a dark detective story with a tinge of the fantastic that I devoured last year. In ‘Mayhem’ we followed Dr Bond, a police surgeon who helped investigate the murders on numerous women in the 1880’s. Some of those are the famous Jack the Ripper cases, but the focus of ‘Mayhem’ was more on the less known Thames Torso murders. We learned throughout the book that there was more than met the eye about these murders and that there may have been something supernatural at work there. In ‘Murder’ some time has passed and we return to London and a happy Dr Thomas Bond.