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Keeper

Keeper

Author(s): Johana Gustawsson

Location(s): Falkenberg, London

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): 1888 and 2015

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Content

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman’s body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims. Profiler Emily Roy and true-crime writer Alexis Castells again find themselves drawn into an intriguing case, with personal links that turn their world upside down.

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Author: tripfiction

Keeper is the second great noir mystery by brilliant French writer, Johana Gustawsson, to be published in English. As the first, Block 46, it is excellently translated by Maxim Jakubowski. Keeper shares structure and...

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