The Friday 56: Stalking Jack the Ripper

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. Join us every Friday and share an excerpt from a book you’ve been reading.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
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“The murderer truly must be a madman if he thought what he was doing was helpful or righteous. And that thought was more terrifying than any other.”

I love a good historical fiction novel and that coupled with a serial killer mystery made Kerri Maniscalco’s debut novel Stalking Jack the Ripper a real delight. Read my full review of this one here. Cover is linked to Goodreads.

From the Goodreads Synopsis:

      “Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.
      Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.”