ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kerri Maniscalco grew up in a small town just outside of New York City, where her love of the arts was fostered from an early age. In her spare time she reads everything she can get her hands on, cooks all kinds of food with her family and friends, and drinks entirely too much tea while discussing life’s finer points with her cats. Stalking Jack the Ripper is her debut novel, and it incorporates her love of forensic science and unsolved history.
For more information, visit Kerri online at kerrimaniscalco.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram at KerriManiscalco or on Facebook at KerriManiscalcoAuthor.
CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
WELCOME
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
EPIGRAPH
ONE: PRELIMINARY INCISION
TWO: BLOOD VENGEANCE
THREE: TEA AND AUTOPSIES
FOUR: A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL
FIVE: DARK AND HIDEOUS THINGS
SIX: DEN OF SIN
SEVEN: A STUDY IN SECRETS
NINE: MESSAGE FROM THE GRAVE
TEN: THE MARY SEE
ELEVEN: SOMETHING WICKED
TWELVE: FAMILY TIES
THIRTEEN: BLUEPRINTS AND BLOODY BOLTS
FOURTEEN: PROPER LADIES DON’T DISCUSS CORPSES
FIFTEEN: GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
SIXTEEN: A DATE TO DIE
SEVENTEEN: HEART OF THE BEAST
EIGHTEEN: NECROPOLIS RAILWAY
NINETEEN: DEAR BOSS
TWENTY: DOUBLE EVENT
TWENTY-ONE: THE WRETCHED TRUTH
TWENTY-TWO: SAUCY JACK
TWENTY-THREE: THE CONJURER’S ART
TWENTY-FOUR: FROM HELL
TWENTY-SIX: BLACK MARY
TWENTY-SEVEN: A PORTRAIT WORTH CONSIDERING
TWENTY-EIGHT: JACK THE RIPPER
TWENTY-NINE: SHADOW AND BLOOD
THIRTY: DEATH TO LIFE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2016 by Kerri Maniscalco
Foreword copyright © 2016 by James Patterson
Cover design by Jeff Miller, Faceout Studio; figure photograph by Carrie Schechter; cover art by Shutterstock
Author photograph by Kelli Maniscalco @ Dogwood Lane
Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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ISBN 9780316273503
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