The Walker (Briony Williams #1) by Jane Goodall

HE TOOK HER INNOCENCE...

NOW HE PLANS TO TAKE HER LIFE

Plymouth 1967: Schoolgirl Nell Adams, all the newspapers reported,
finds murder victim on train. And there was her picture on the
front page. So he knew her name and he knew her face. His face,
or lack of it, filled her nightmares until she woke screaming...

London 1971: Nell Adams is now a university student in London,
trying to put the past behind her. But as a series of murders
reveals a killer obsessed with Jack the Ripper, Nell realises
her nightmares might be coming true.

Detective Briony Williams, also just starting out on her life in London,
is attached to the team tracking down The Walker. The killer is
a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak. Arranging his victims'
bodies in twisted parodies of Hogarth's engravings, in particular the
Reward of Cruelty, 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 ...

Two young women, part of the Swinging Sixties generation,
so full of hope and possibility, soon discover new times
mask age-old evil in this gripping psychological thriller
of ritual cruelty in London's dark underbelly.

Genres: Crime - Mystery - British Literature
Condition: Good
Published: 2004 by Hodder
Pages: 362
ISBN: 0733618510
Weight: 530g