Waiting on Wednesday 03/12/14

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!

Mogsy’s Pick

Murder by Sarah Pinborough: May 1, 2014 (Jo Fletcher Books)

This week I’m really hankering for this sequel to Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough, a great supernatural horror novel I read last year about the Whitechapel murders…which actually didn’t turn out to be a story about Jack the Ripper! Some of the killings between 1888 and 1891 were different enough that investigators theorized that they could have been committed by another person other than Jack. The idea of a separate “Torso Killer” in these “Thames Mysteries” is what formed the basis for that book. Now Dr. Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is back on the case, because true evil never takes a break.

I love these UK covers too!

“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.”