The Business of Blood by Kerrigan Byrne
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Book Title: The Business of Blood
Author: Kerrigan Byrne
Narrator/ Available in audio: Justine Eyre
Part of a Series: The Fiona Mahoney Mysteries, Book 1
Genre: Historical Mystery Romance
Synopsis: Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It’s been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary’s blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn’t forgotten.
And she hasn’t stopped searching for Jack.
When she’s called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary’s old home. The relentless, overbearing, and irritatingly handsome Inspector Grayson Croft warns her away from the case. She might have listened if she hadn’t found a clue in the blood. A clue that will lead her down a path from which there is no return. As a killer cuts a devastating swath through London, a letter written in blood arrives at her door, and it is only then that Fiona realizes just how perilous her endeavor is. For she has drawn the attention of an obsessive evil and is no longer the hunter, but the prey. Fiona Mahoney is in the business of blood.
But she’s not the only one.
Favorite Line in the Book:
Shani:
“I was no longer a lady. A woman. Or Fiona. I was a wild thing. Perhaps a killer.”
Favorite Review:
Shani:
OLT rated it it was amazing
(4.5 stars) I've been doing lots of escape reading lately and have had my fill for the moment of romance, so I needed a palate cleanser. Funny that I should choose this book, because lemon sorbet it definitely is not. There's gruesome murder, blood and gore, and hints of Jack the Ripper in the background in this historical novel set in 1890 London. This read is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart.
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