Yard

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A gripping debut from Alex Grecian The Yard" evokes London in the wake of Jack the Ripper. Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime & murder with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed Murder Squad of Scotland Yard made up of just twelve detectives battles in vain against the tide of violence & cruelty. When the body of a Yard detective is found in a suitcase his lips sewn together & his eyes sewn shut it becomes clear that not even the police are safe from attack. Has the Ripper returned
- or is a new killer at large? Walter Day the squad's newest recruit is assigned the case & finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic pathologist Dr Bernard Kingsley. Can they find the murderer before it's too late? Or is London at the mercy of a serial killer even deadlier than Jack the Ripper? Fans of " Interpretation of Murder" & " The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" will love Alex Grecian's first crime novel: " The Yard". " The Yard" will take you into the dark side of Victorian London & offers a fascinating insight into the birth of CSI. Praise for " The Yard": " If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this one Wilkie Collins surely is". (" New York Times"). Alex Grecian has worked for an ad agency on accounts for Harley-Davidson Cub Foods & The Great American Smokeout before returning to writing fiction full time & raising his son. Alex is the author of the long-running & critically acclaimed comic book series " Proof" & he lives in Topeka Kansas with his wife & son. " The Yard" is his first novel."