Author:Alex Grecian
If you were fascinated by The Five, you'll love this gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Victorian London in the wake of Jack the Ripper.
A killer is haunting London's streets . . .
A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, London is in the grip of a wave of terror. The newly formed Murder Squad of Scotland Yard battles in vain against the tide of horror.
When the body of a detective is found in a suitcase, his lips sewn together and his eyes sewn shut, it becomes clear that no one is safe from attack.
Has the Ripper returned - or is a new killer at large?
And for Walter Day, the young policeman assigned the case, is time running out?
Praise for The Yard:
'If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this one, Wilkie Collins surely is.' New York Times
This latest outing for the offbeat Commissaire Adamsberg is [Vargas'] best
—— IndependentAfter decades in which crime fiction in French was dominated by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, it has an indisputable new star in Fred Vargas
—— Joan Smith , Sunday TimesVargas depicts brilliantly a rural community riven with superstition, where class distinctions have existed for centuries
—— The TimesAn early contender for outstanding crime novel of the year
—— Sunday TimesA glorious mix of myth, quirky observation and gallic humour
—— Sunday TelegraphHer novels about the kindly, quixotic Commissaire Adamsberg are unique, presenting us with a France that resembles Simenon’s in its concreteness but with a fantastical, even surreal, twist: werewolves, vampires and, in her latest novel, an army of ghosts on horseback… Her work is like a baked Camembert among the smorgasbord of chilly Scandinavian realism that dominates the foreign crime fiction market here, delicious comfort food for the sophisticated palate
—— Jake Kerridge , Daily TelegraphThere are, it seems, two types of people: those who have discovered the quirky bliss of Fred Vargas's novels and those who don't know a good thing when they see it on the shelf
—— Independent on SundayA celebration of love and camaraderie among the unlikeliest allies
—— Metro
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