Ripper

The last third of this book makes up for the first two thirds. I thought this was a very confusing book. In the first two thirds you get a lot of information; many character (with no apparent main character), information about serial killer (especially Jack the Ripper) and many departments of the Canadian Mounties (and the acronyms). A lot of this information could have been cut to make a more comprehensible story. Only in the last third of the book does everything come together and becomes apparent who the main character is.

What confused me even more was Slade's tendency to constantly switch by calling his characters by their first and last name, often switching between sentences. There are many characters and switching between what he show more calls them I was constantly thrown out of the story by having to recall what character he is referring to.

I almost stopped reading this book but I'm glad I persevered because the last part is good and hard to put down. show less

I really got into the beginning of this book. It started off the way I like with a gruesome murder and went onto explaining the different classifications of serial killers and it was interesting.

Then because the murderers were involved in the occult, using Tarot, etc. I feel the plot got too involved and detailed with the occult. I didn't really need to know everything there was to know about dating back to its roots.

It picked back up with the "Mystery" weekend on Deadman's Island but it was like starting a new book again because I had lost interest.

Jack the Ripper is dead, right? Don't bet your life on it! Who would slash the body to shreds, then rip the face off America's foremost feminist, and hang her out to die? Who would take a pair of twin hookers on a terror trips that made death seem innocent and sweet? Who would turn a secluded island gathering of bright and beautiful people into a carnival of carnage? What grim and grisly figure stood, dripping knife in hand, at the end of the most horrifying trail of death and deception Detectives Robert DeClercq and Zinc Chandler ever followed? A lot of people were dying to find out...--Provided by publisher.

Jack the ripper is dead, Right? don't bet your life on it! Who would slash the body to shreds, the rip the face off America's foremost feminist - and hang her out to die? who whould take a pair of twin hookers on a terro trip that made death innocent and sweet? Who would turn a secluded island gathering of bright and beatiful people into a carniva of carnage? What grim and grisly figure stood dripping knife in hand at the end of the most horrifying trail of death and deception Detective Robert DeClerq and Zinc Chandler ever followed? A lot of people were dying to find out...

I wish I hadn't.