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[Now You See Me] by S.J. (Sharon) Bolton
Lacey Flint series Book #1
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One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building's darkened parking lot. Within twenty-four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper's first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it's real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London's bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt.
No one believes the connections are anything more than a sadistic killer's game, not even Lacey, whom the killer seems to be taunting specifically. However, as they investigate the details of the case start reminding her more and more of a part of her past she'd rather keep hidden. And the only way to do that is to catch the killer herself. Lacey Flint is a young detective constable who literally walks into the first victim seconds before she bleeds out. Lacey has a secret...a secret that she has fought to keep deeply hidden... but now thanks to a set of unpredictable circumstances, it may bring her life crashing down around her ears. The Jack The Ripper copycat portion of the book was interesting, informative but extremely gruesome...as can be expected since history has told us Jack wasn't "The Tooth Fairy", thus this may not be a topic that everyone will want to explore. The biggest set back for me with the book was that it didn't always give the reader even a minor explanation of why the events transpired as they did. I really enjoyed the authors writing style and I believe the series has a great deal of promise if it continues with these same characters.
