Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine in which we spotlight upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating!
The Ripper’s Wife
by Brandy Purdy
Expected Publication Date: October 28, 2014
Synopsis from Goodreads
It begins as a fairytale romance — a shipboard meeting in 1880 between vivacious Southern belle Florence Chandler and handsome English cotton broker James Maybrick. Courtship and a lavish wedding soon follow, and the couple settles into an affluent Liverpool suburb.
From the first, their marriage is doomed by lies. Florie, hardly the heiress her scheming mother portrayed, is treated as an outsider by fashionable English society. James's secrets are infinitely darker-he has a mistress, an arsenic addiction, and a vicious temper. But Florie has no inkling of her husband's depravity until she discovers his diary — and in it, a litany of bloody deeds...
Why I am waiting....
A fictional Jack the Ripper story….sounds interesting!
Interesting read! I have never come across like this before, definitely added to goodreads!
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Yes please!!! This sounds really interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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Oh my! I'm so fascinated by Jack the Ripper, so a novel about him sounds awesome! Must have! :D Great pick!
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