Silk
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It is the time of Jack the Ripper, the widowed Queen Victoria sits on the throne of England. The whole of London is on edge wondering when or where Jack will kill next. The Palace, Parliament, and the press are demanding the police do more to find him. In another part of London, rough-around-the-edges war hero, Metropolitan Detective Inspector Rudyard Bloodstone has his own serial killer to find. Inter departmental rivalries, politics, and little evidence to go on hamper the investigation at every turn. In a battle of wills, Bloodstone presses forward following his instincts in spite of the obstacles. Adding to those problems, away from the strains of the investigation, he is engaged in the ups and downs of a new relationship with a lovely hat maker.
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The Bloodstone is a 1-book series first released in 2014 with contributions by Chris Karlsen.
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This is yet another win from Early Reviewers. Unfortunately, it's a completely forgettable book. I've read “Silk” some time ago and waited to write this review for a while to see what I would actually remember and how I would feel about it.
The story is pretty much standard murder mystery: Killer kills woman, police tries to find him with the limited means of the time, police catches murders.
In between, there's a bored guy from the landed gentry who tries to achieve eternal youth by acquiring an obscure potion, seduces every woman he meets and kills most of them because it turns him on.
There's the lonely cop with a funny name and his sidekick, their annoying boss and a bit of romance thrown in uninspiredly. The author tries to add a bit of philosophy (“Was he always like that or was it the potion? Everyone seems to have loved him! Must have been the potion” - “No, young padawan, he must have been a monster before because no elixir exists to turn someone into one.”) but fails at that as well.
Honestly, find something else to read. This book is simply uninspired and boring.
