Delicious story! One of those books you can’t stop because you so want to find out what comes next. The storyline has a female pursuing forensic medical studies in secret under the tutelage of her Uncle who is a doctor with perhaps a bit of a body snatcher side. O.K. back in those days if a medical person wanted to really pursue anatomical studies one had to pay the grave diggers to provide a cadaver to work on not like today where cadavers are provided for medical students perusing. So our heroine and her Uncle have a little Victor Frankenstein thing going on as for their nefarious provision of body parts to actually be able to take out and study. Audrey Rose Wadsworth is a lady, high born who follows all the social norms of her upper class upbringing, around her father, but, like a superhero she leads a double life studying the forbidden in secret from her father and learning from her Sherlock Holmes like Uncle just how bodies behave when treated savagely. i.e. The bodies they begin receiving are some of the ones savagely killed by the world’s first murderer to be considered a serial killer, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper. Seventeen is such a tender young age to be assessing crime evidence in such close quarters, but, catching the brutal person doing this to these poor women becomes an obsession for Audrey Rose. The girl is fearless! She begins sneaking out to the areas the Ripper haunts and at night in Victorian times. And alone. It makes you want to say, Girl! Are you out of your mind? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? It is an intriguing story and it will keep you on the edge of your seat all the way to the end. And you won’t believe the end. Oh my gosh. Read this book!
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