Walker (Briony Williams)

by JaneGoodall (Author), JaneGoodall (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $12.13

  Plymouth 1967: Schoolgirl Nell Adams, all the newspapers reported, finds murder victim on train. And her photo covers the front pages. So he knew her name and her face. His Face, or lack of it, filled her nightmares until she woke screaming London 1971: Nell is a university student in London, trying to put her past behind her. But as a series of murders reveals a killer obsessed with Jack the Ripper, she realises her nightmares might be coming true.Detective Briony Williams, also just starting out on her life in London, is part of the team tracking The Walker. The killer is a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak, arranging his victims bodies in twisted parodies of Hogarth s engravings. He sends a perfectly extracted eye to the police in a Tupperware container, with a defiant message. He s planning a reunion with the schoolgirl who found his first victim.