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Mayhem

by Sarah Pinborough · 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… more

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Of course she was bloody found dead." Moore grumbled. "Some bastard cut off her head and her limbs. If she'd been found alive I would have been more than bloody surprised.
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Unfortunately it is perhaps in all our natures that we take the living for granted until they are no longer with us. - Thomas Bond
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Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel.
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There was a power in being hidden, unseen.
Something was reaching into men's souls and dragging out their hidden darkness, leaving them dumbfounded by their actions as they were led away to the gallows.
I feel like everything wicked is looking into my house. Into me.
Recently I had begun to think that soon this city would be forever stained in cold, dead blood.
Evening was falling, and London was sinking into the gloom that existed between day and night before the streetlights flickered into life.

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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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First published
2013
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3.56 (4k ratings)

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