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    Murder
    Murder
    Murder
    Audiobook10 hours

    Murder

    Written by Sarah Pinborough

    Narrated by Steven Crossley

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    About this audiobook

    Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. Now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames, and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781471262845
    Murder
    Author

    Sarah Pinborough

    Sarah Pinborough is the number one Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes, and more than twenty other novels and novellas, including The Death House and a young adult thriller, 13 Minutes. She has also written for the BBC. She lives in England. sarahpinborough.com

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    • 5/5
      If Mayhem was a solid supernatural take on Jack the Ripper, Murder is an outstanding psychological horror novel that deepens the mythology of the monster and carries it to its logical (and unthinkable) conclusion. (I keep calling this a horror novel; it's really closer to a psychological thriller that happens to have a supernatural monster in it.)
    • 5/5
      Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, thinks he has finally recovered from the terrible events of years before. He no longer has nightmares about Jack the Ripper - or the other monster, an enemy even more malign who hid in Jack's shadow and haunted the streets of London at the end of the 1880s. He had made his peace with his part in bringing calm back to the East End. His fame as a profiler of criminals is increasing, his practice is steady, and Dr Bond is beginning to dream of marriage, and children. Life is good. But when a woman's body is found brutally beaten to death in a railway carriage and a letter written years before is discovered by the police, the past he has fought so hard to put behind him begins to taint the present, and he can no longer fight his new suspicions. Just when he thought life had returned to normal, Dr Bond is about to discover that some things will not remain buried: once again his uncanny enemy is loose on the streets of London... and this time Dr Bond is alone.

      Gruesome, grim, gripping book, you would read through your fingers (if you could). Excellent sense of time and place coupled with sublime storytelling makes for an exciting, if unnerving read....
    • 4/5
      “Dr. Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from the event of the previous year when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. But now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames... and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.”Pinborough has done it again and with a completely different English murder mystery. The Baby Farm Murders isn’t a highly acclaimed murder mystery like Jack the Ripper or others from that time, but Sarah found it. Then, she worked her horror/paranormal magic on it, and viola. I was prepared for the switching of narrative styles in this book, which put some off in the other. I have even grown to appreciate what this can show about the world and plot. Reading through Dr. Bond as he spirals gave the story a good edge. I liked the vampire/non-vampire and loved how Sarah’s unique twists gave the story a paranormal feel without the tired and overused stereotypes. The only common things Sarah did induce was a love triangle. And although it did take away from the overall story (in my opinion), it was still a great read.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to like this one more but it just didn't work for me.Dr Thomas Bond thinks he's recovered from the events of the last few years, he's successful and is beginning to look forward to the future. Only the past is about to come rearing back, the supernatural is about to consume him and he will not find it an easy experience.Not bad, I think it may have suffered from me reading it at a bad time for me, possibly if I re-read the first one and read this shortly after things would work better.
    • 4/5
      *spoilers from Mayhem will follow*‘I refused to allow my paranoias to root inside me; I knew I must allow them no room to grow during the long, dark nights.’Six years have passed since James Harrington, the Thames Torso Murderer was finally caught and killed by Dr. Thomas Bond, a Police Surgeon in London. Bond is haunted with the knowledge behind the killings, because Harrington was possessed by a violent parasite, the Upir, which drove him to violently murder all those women. Unfortunately, the death of Harrington did not kill the Upir, only left it temporarily without a host. Bond is seemingly moving past the nightmares of his past as he’s fallen in love with Juliana, Harrington’s widow, and plans to propose to her. His life is thrown into disaray when an old friend of Harrington comes to London with a packet of letters from Harrington which implicates him in crimes committed while in the throws of the parasite. In addition to the dredging up of these memories, Bond must also deal with new evidence which points to a new suspect being the famed ‘Jack the Ripper’.Setting aside the horrific plot, the most amazing thing about both Mayhem and Murder is the vivid atmosphere deftly brought to life. Pinborough’s writing goes beyond creating a movie in our minds; it truly feels like you’re walking the streets of London, visualizing the slums and seedy individuals Bond encounters as he makes his way to the opium dens. The fact that she manages to blend historical fiction with the supernatural seamlessly is even more spectacular. The attention to detail only serves to make the horrors of this macabre story even more unnerving.Mayhem stood alone as a solid story but Murder adds an extra facet to the tale that I wasn’t sure was necessary until I read it myself. The ending of Mayhem was, in retrospect, far too neatly completed; the mystery too cleanly wrapped up. Simply put, it was too good to be true. And Murder completely proves that to be true. If you thought Mayhem was terrifying and left your skin crawling, Murder completely outdoes its predecessor, ensnaring you in its grasp leaving you hopeless to stop reading until the undoubtedly heart stopping ending. This was one superb and truly impressive duology; bravo Sarah Pinborough.
    • 5/5
      A big complaint in genre fiction these days is that everything is a series. I know I myself have moaned about series burnout on more than a few occasions and expressed a desire to see more stand-alones. However! Every once in a while the news of an unexpected sequel will make me jump up and down for joy! This is most definitely one of those times.Murder can be viewed as the follow-up to Mayhem, the chilling paranormal horror novel by Sarah Pinborough that was published last year from Jo Fletcher Books. Sort-of-but-not-really about Jack the Ripper, the clever combination of historical fact and fiction intermixed with supernatural elements quickly made the first book one of my all-time favorites.I should probably mention too that Mayhem works perfectly well as a stand-alone, but I was also thrilled when I found out about Murder, for reasons beyond simply loving its forerunner. Sarah Pinborough clearly had a lot more in store for Dr. Thomas Bond, the protagonist in these books. The real Dr. Thomas Bond was also a very important figure in British crime history, best known for his work as the police surgeon on a lot of the Whitechapel murder investigations between 1887-1891. I’ve always believed that the best horror stories are rooted in reality, and being aware that Bond’s career and later years also contained a lot of shocking turns made me really excited to see what the author would do next.Once again, Sarah Pinborough succeeds in bringing life and depth to her characters, several of whom were real people from history. A lot of the gruesome events described in this novel also actually happened, even the line in the description about bodies of children being pulled from the Thames (see the Victorian England baby farm murders). Pinborough flawlessly weaves a supernatural aspect into the story, but even then things can sometimes get too real. I think that’s why historical horrors are often so effective at terrifying me!So now I’ll try my best to explain why I simply adored this book without giving away any spoilers for Mayhem: First, I love how these books aren’t about any one killer or murder case. Rather, all that serves as a backdrop, whereas the main focus is on something a lot more otherworldly and evil. Malevolence has settled upon London, and Dr. Thomas Bond is inextricably linked to it; try as he might, he can’t escape the pull of the past. Because of this, Bond becomes an increasingly unreliable narrator, and having been familiar with his steadfast pragmatism up until this point only makes his downward spiral even more disconcerting. Like Mayhem, Bond’s chapters are the only ones written in the first person, while others are in the third person. This point-of-view switching allows us see a fuller picture, and works even better in this book since our main protagonist’s credibility has been compromised.Ms. Pinborough also doesn’t hold anything back. Despite the kind of character Bond becomes, I felt for him; I really did. But the author knows what needs to happen, and carries it all through mercilessly. And it honestly made for a better book. There were some truly unexpected turns in the plot; sometimes I couldn’t even believe it. You’ll be appalled and filled with hatred. Your heart will break. And you’ll also marvel at the amazing things the author accomplishea with character development.This book was just so good. Dark, disturbing, and full of tension -- just the way I like my horror. It was not a fast-paced book, and yet the story had this way of worming into my mind. This is definitely the kind of book that makes you think about it even when you’re not reading, and hope that it won’t be long until you can pick it up again.