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The Art of Murder

by Michael White

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One hundred and twenty years after Jack the Ripper, he has an apprentice to continue his work... In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon has never seen a murder quite like this one. It isn't the bizarre arrangement of the body, found in a London art gallery, that has Pendragon and his team reeling; it's the meticulous arrangement of an apple in the hole where the corpse's face used to be. The reference to surrealist painter Magritte is horrifyingly clear. Twenty-four hours later, the police have a second grotesque killing on their hands. This time, the crime scene emulates a famous Dali painting, The Persistence of Memory. Someone is turning murder into an art form. And it's not for the first time. More than a century earlier, the citizens of Whitechapel in London's East End were living in fear of another artist with a knife. Though Jack the Ripper was never caught, his teaching lives on. Now, in the twenty-first century, Jack has a gifted and bloodthirsty apprentice.… (more)
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4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this book - has two strands a serial killer in UK in current times who has Jack the Ripper as a mentor, and letters from Jack the Ripper telling his story. Not well known this book but in my opinion worth searching out. ( )
  Andrew-theQM | Jun 20, 2016 |
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One hundred and twenty years after Jack the Ripper, he has an apprentice to continue his work... In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon has never seen a murder quite like this one. It isn't the bizarre arrangement of the body, found in a London art gallery, that has Pendragon and his team reeling; it's the meticulous arrangement of an apple in the hole where the corpse's face used to be. The reference to surrealist painter Magritte is horrifyingly clear. Twenty-four hours later, the police have a second grotesque killing on their hands. This time, the crime scene emulates a famous Dali painting, The Persistence of Memory. Someone is turning murder into an art form. And it's not for the first time. More than a century earlier, the citizens of Whitechapel in London's East End were living in fear of another artist with a knife. Though Jack the Ripper was never caught, his teaching lives on. Now, in the twenty-first century, Jack has a gifted and bloodthirsty apprentice.

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In al zijn jaren bij de politie is inspecteur Jack Pendragon nog nooit geconfronteerd met zon gruwelijke reeks moorden. De lichamen van de slachtoffers zijn op verschrikkelijke wijze verminkt en vervolgens zo gepositioneerd dat ze verwijzen naar werken van beroemde surrealistische schilders. Om de zaken nog ingewikkelder te maken, lijkt er een verband te zijn tussen deze moorden en een serie onopgeloste moorden in Londen in 1880, namelijk die van Jack the Ripper. Pendragon is vastbesloten de zaak op te lossen, maar zijn tegenstander is niet alleen gevaarlijk, hij is ook bijzonder intelligent en laat geen spoor achter. Een bloedstollende race tegen de klok begint

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