People of Abandoned Character

A reimagination of the Jack the Ripper murders. Jack the Ripper is one of those characters that has been a fertile stream for imagination, and the mystery that surrounds the Whitechapel murders lingers to this day. Clare Whitfield does a good job of conjuring Victorian era London through the eyes of a nurse who becomes fascinated with these murders. The angle taken is intriguing and I will avoid spoilers by not revealing more.

The basic plot follows an amateur sleuthing style angle to a murder mystery and it has some interesting twists and turns on the way. The prose is well written, if a little dry for my tastes. The historical research has been well done. My main issue is with the characters. I found I did not really warm to any of them - the housekeeper and the husband are almost caricatures of unpleasantness.

There were some neat ideas in here, but it wasn't really for me in the end