Reviews

Death at Whitechapel by Robin Paige

gonewithflynn's review against another edition

2.5

The premise of this story is an interesting one - I love the Victorian setting and the ties to Jack the Ripper. While the story is slow burn, the audiobook narrators were engaging and enjoyable and having started the series with this book, which is book 6, I didn't feel like I was lacking any information to understand the story, though perhaps it would've been nice to have the character development from the previous books for the investigating duo! All that said, I did feel like the story dragged. The multitude of characters were also a bit hard to keep track of by audio. I feel like sections of this book could've been cut out without negatively impacting the story and it might've even sped up the pace a bit. 

Thanks to Dreamscape media and Netgalley for the audiobook ARC. All opinions are my own. 

zoeelizabethk's review

2.0

DNF at 25%. Nothing ever drew me in or kept me intrigued or made me want to keep reading. If you’re a fan of Jack the Ripper and pre WWII Britain history you might be more interested in those aspects. But this was not for me. 

I listened to the new audiobook by Dreamscape and found the narrator engaging. 

Thanks to Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for an audioARC in exchange for an honest review. 

cheryl6of8's review against another edition

3.0

I quite enjoy this series and these characters and the opportunity to learn a little about historical figures at the same time. This book involves the question as to whether Lord Randolph Churchill (father of Winston) was at all connected to the Jack the Ripper scandal. It makes an interesting case (although I find Patricia Cornwell's book implicating Walter Sickert -- who is also a character here -- more compelling). I am a little leery, though, of the use, once again, of Freemasons as the mysterious moving force of evil behind events. I don't know any Freemasons, myself, but I think they quite often get a bad rap just because they consider certain things secret or sacred within their order. The mystery here was well-done otherwise, and the character of Jennie Churchill was certainly a fascinating one. The secondary story of Mrs. Pratt also was interesting, particularly as it played into the same themes of the larger story.

alesia_charles's review against another edition

3.0

If there had to be another novel about the Jack the Ripper murders, this one isn't a bad entry. Lots of material about the early life of Winston Churchill, too. I probably would've liked it better if so much of the ground (the basic Who Was the Ripper theory, and Churchill) wasn't already familiar to me. And I also dislike it when book set in actual reality (even historical reality) pretend that psychic stuff is real.