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Title: The Sixth Victim
Author: Tessa Harris
Narrator: Fiona Hardingham, Gemma Dawson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-30-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
London's East End, 1888. When darkness falls, terror begins.
The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to dread, but she is more preoccupied with her own strange experiences of late.
Clairvoyants seem to be everywhere these days. In desperation, even Scotland Yard has turned to them to help apprehend the Ripper. Her mother has found comfort in contacting her late father in a séance. But are such powers real? And could Constance really be possessed of second sight? She longs for the wise counsel of her mentor and champion of the poor, Emily Tindall, but the kind missionary has gone missing.
Following the latest grisly discovery, Constance is contacted by a high-born lady of means who fears the victim may be her missing sister. She implores Constance to use her clairvoyance to help solve the crime, which the press is calling "the Whitechapel Mystery", attributing the murder to the Ripper.
As Constance becomes embroiled in intrigue far more sinister than she could have imagined, assistance comes in a startling manner that profoundly challenges her assumptions about the nature of reality. She'll need all the help she can get - because there may be more than one depraved killer out there.
Members Reviews:
The Sixth Victim
Ever since a trip to London, staying in a hotel in Whitechapel and taking a cracking Ripper Tour, I have been a bit fascinated by Jack and his antics so I was more than interested in seeing what this author could do with this book. I am by no means an expert Riperologist but, to me, she has weaved her own story seamlessly into the setting. Incorporating fact (as we know it) with her fiction to produce a pretty good read.
Constance is trying to find her teacher Emily Tindall. She hasn't been seen in time and she is worried. She tries to follow her footsteps, she goes to her church, her place of work and gets fobbed off at every turn. Being only young and of dubious "employment" herself, Constance lucks out at every turn.
We also hear from a doctor, Terence Cutler, who we learn early on also has his own dubious working habits! His wife has also disappeared and, having avoided this situation for a fair while, is forced to confront it when her sister, Pauline, turns up asking after her.
Then a fortuitous meeting between Constance and Pauline has them combining forces to find out what has happened to both Pauline's sister and Miss Tindall. A meeting of minds who, together could get to the bottom of things, as the cases appear linked. Drawn to an unknown body, the sixth victim, that has been found and possibly not attributed to the Ripper, together they investigate.
The narrative is interspersed with Emily telling her own story. Why isn't she able to just tell someone what is happening? What evil is really happening in and around Whitechapel?
I simply devoured this book cover to cover. I got fully immersed in the place, the time, and the story as I devoutly followed all the characters as they tried to get to the truth. As this story merges with the Ripper story, there is quite a bit of gore described but not for shock, it is totally befitting the narrative.
