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The Return of the Ripper

The Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery Series, Book 7

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Performed by acclaimed narrators Simon Prebble and Wendy Tremont King, this adventure takes place in Victorian London, 1897.

Sherlock Holmes has been asked by South African mogul Cecil Rhodes to stop an international ring of diamond smugglers. An alluring woman wants Watson to help raise funds for her charity. Lucy and Jack are looking forward to their wedding and moving into a new home. But then a new series of murders take place in Whitechapel, and Lucy is targeted by a notorious killer.

The Baker Street team will need more than their usual deductive brilliance to defeat their latest adversary, or else the case of the Ripper could be their last.

©2018 Charles Veley and Anna Elliott (P)2018 Charles Veley and Anna Elliott Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Sherlock Holmes
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while putting its own spin on the characters, it still has a lot of the feel of a Sherlock novel, thoroughly enjoyable with great characters

a brilliant series doing the original justice

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Great story, great narration. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It has brought Sherlock Holmes’s back to life!

Great story!

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Nothing to dislike, once started, I have to get to the end to find out who did it.

All of the books in this series are very good. The story lines have many twist and turns, which keeps you guessing.

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I enjoyed this audiobook very much. It is well paced and narrated although I wish that Jack’s East End accent was more authentic. Very enjoyable story.

Very suspenseful

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There seems to be quite a few authors writing alternative Sherlock Holmes stories, I have read a few but only listened to one, this production. It is a good effort, and I like that it concentrates as much on Lucy James, Sherlock's newly discovered daughter as on Holmes himself.

The story is quite involved and well written with some enjoyable twists to the plot. The narration definitely benefits from having two narrators, I prefer having the female voices performed by a woman and the male ones by a man, it makes the story much easier to follow for me.

Overall an enjoyable listen.

Enjoyable alternative Sherlock Holmes story

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