Stalking Jack the Ripper

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Kerri Maniscalco grew up in a small town just outside of New York City, where her love of the arts was fostered from an early age. In her spare time she reads everything she can get her hands on, cooks all kinds of food with her family and friends, and drinks entirely too much tea while discussing life’s finer points with her cats. Stalking Jack the Ripper is her debut novel, and it incorporates her love of forensic science and unsolved history.

  For more information, visit Kerri online at kerrimaniscalco.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram at KerriManiscalco or on Facebook at KerriManiscalcoAuthor.

  CONTENTS

  COVER

  TITLE PAGE

  WELCOME

  DEDICATION

  FOREWORD

  EPIGRAPH

  ONE: PRELIMINARY INCISION

  TWO: BLOOD VENGEANCE

  THREE: TEA AND AUTOPSIES

  FOUR: A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

  FIVE: DARK AND HIDEOUS THINGS

  SIX: DEN OF SIN

  SEVEN: A STUDY IN SECRETS

  EIGHT: BRING OUT YOUR NEARLY DEAD

  NINE: MESSAGE FROM THE GRAVE

  TEN: THE MARY SEE

  ELEVEN: SOMETHING WICKED

  TWELVE: FAMILY TIES

  THIRTEEN: BLUEPRINTS AND BLOODY BOLTS

  FOURTEEN: PROPER LADIES DON’T DISCUSS CORPSES

  FIFTEEN: GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

  SIXTEEN: A DATE TO DIE

  SEVENTEEN: HEART OF THE BEAST

  EIGHTEEN: NECROPOLIS RAILWAY

  NINETEEN: DEAR BOSS

  TWENTY: DOUBLE EVENT

  TWENTY-ONE: THE WRETCHED TRUTH

  TWENTY-TWO: SAUCY JACK

  TWENTY-THREE: THE CONJURER’S ART

  TWENTY-FOUR: FROM HELL

  TWENTY-FIVE: A VIOLET FROM MOTHER’S GRAVE

  TWENTY-SIX: BLACK MARY

  TWENTY-SEVEN: A PORTRAIT WORTH CONSIDERING

  TWENTY-EIGHT: JACK THE RIPPER

  TWENTY-NINE: SHADOW AND BLOOD

  THIRTY: DEATH TO LIFE

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COPYRIGHT

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2016 by Kerri Maniscalco

  Foreword copyright © 2016 by James Patterson

  Cover design by Jeff Miller, Faceout Studio; figure photograph by Carrie Schechter; cover art by Shutterstock

  Author photograph by Kelli Maniscalco @ Dogwood Lane

  Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  First Edition: September 2016

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  ISBN 9780316273503

  E3-20160805-JV-PC