There is something about Jack the Ripper that fascinates many....and I am one of the many. At least, I am ever since I took a trip to London with some friends a few years ago and we took a "Jack the Ripper" tour on our last night in Jolly Olde England.
When today's book arrived in the library a few months ago and I was cataloging it for my students, it sparked my interest because of the Ripper connection....and so I knew eventually that I would read it.
Rory Deveaux is from Louisiana and spending the year at a boarding school in London. The day she arrives seems like just your average day, but something is off. There has been a murder in the Whitechapel section of London--where the famed Ripper murders occurred during late 1888--and the media are in a tizzy. When a second murder occurs on September 8--the same day Annie Chapman was murdered in 1888,a woman named Fiona Chapman, and murdered in the same manner that Annie Chapman had been--the tizzy becomes a full-fledged frenzy. Everyone is concerned that the "double event" of September 30 is coming up. In the meantime, Rory is seeing people out and about that no one else sees, including who she believes is the murderer, the Ripper.
Why can Rory see these people but no one else can? Will her parents ship her back to Louisiana before the end of the year because of the danger? What is going to happen if the police can't capture this new Ripper?
And the big question I want to know the answer to....will there be a sequel?!?!
For further reading on Jack the Ripper, you may want to check out The Ripper and the Royals by Melvyn Fairlough. I read this one after coming back from England, at the recommendation of our Ripper tour guide. It is a heavy but fascinating read.
Happy reading!
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