Jack the Ripper
10 best books like Jack the Ripper (Mark Whitehead): Under the Egg, The Gone Dead, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Books for Living, Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton, In a Glass Grimmly, The Liar's Girl, The Tree of Death, An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, House of Evidence
| Author | Laura Marx Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0803740018 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle-grade debut.
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s...
| Author | Chanelle Benz |
| ISBN | 0062490699 |
An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death
Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack...
| Author | Philip Sugden |
| ISBN | 1841193976 |
A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research. The author reassesses...
| Author | Will Schwalbe |
| ISBN | 0385353545 |
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives.
"I've always believed that everything...
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
| Author | Tilar J. Mazzeo |
| ISBN | 1501166301 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days.
Fans fell in love with...
More Grimm tales await in the harrowing, hilarious companion to a beloved new classic
Take caution ahead—
Oversize plant life, eerie amphibious royalty, and fear-inducing creatures abound.
Lest you enter with dread.
Follow Jack and Jill as they enter startling new...
| Author | Catherine Ryan Howard |
| ISBN | 1504782542 |
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen,...
| Author | Marcia Muller |
| ISBN | 0446404209 |
BOTTOM LINE: An early work, this first novel of Muller's second series is decently plotted and has fairly good characters, but is unfortunately predictable all the way through. The Chicana second-in-command of a folk art museum finds herself caught in a web of deceit, embezzlement, and murder, and...
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere
| Author | Mikita Brottman |
| ISBN | 1250169143 |
An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere--a once-grand hotel--and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism
"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing, ' printed in a bold,...
| Author | Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson |
| ISBN | 1611090997 |
From celebrated author Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson comes an atmospheric and gripping tale of ambition, technology, and the twisted history of Iceland's railway.
On a cold January morning in 1973, inside a stately old house in Reykjavik, blood pools around Jacob Kieler Junior from a fatal gunshot...
Love in the Present Tense
| Author | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| ISBN | 0385518005 |
For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch with watching Leonard while she goes off to work. Then one day Pearl drops her son...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
| Author | Leonard Mlodinow |
| ISBN | 0147521947 |
From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change, and at how tapping into elastic thinking will help us thrive in the modern world.
Drawing on cutting-edge research, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on an illuminating journey...
