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The Sixth Victim

By: Tessa Harris
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Gemma Dawson
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Summary

London's East End, 1888. When darkness falls, terror begins.

The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to dread, but she is more preoccupied with her own strange experiences of late.

Clairvoyants seem to be everywhere these days. In desperation, even Scotland Yard has turned to them to help apprehend the Ripper. Her mother has found comfort in contacting her late father in a séance. But are such powers real? And could Constance really be possessed of second sight? She longs for the wise counsel of her mentor and champion of the poor, Emily Tindall, but the kind missionary has gone missing.

Following the latest grisly discovery, Constance is contacted by a high-born lady of means who fears the victim may be her missing sister. She implores Constance to use her clairvoyance to help solve the crime, which the press is calling "the Whitechapel Mystery", attributing the murder to the Ripper.

As Constance becomes embroiled in intrigue far more sinister than she could have imagined, assistance comes in a startling manner that profoundly challenges her assumptions about the nature of reality. She'll need all the help she can get - because there may be more than one depraved killer out there.

©2017 Tessa Harris (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Poor reading marrs a decent storyline

An unusual & worthwhile story spoilt by poor performance.
Neither narrator seems fluent in their part, they sound too much like people reading out loud from a book they don't much like. And why use a narrator who can't do a Welsh accent to read a part that needs one?
Added to this there are lots of mispronunciations, which I find really irritating. This book has numerous examples of why narrators really should look up words they aren't familiar with.
The storyline was enough to keep me listening & the characters were well-formed so I might well read (or with different narrators listen to) another book by this author. I'd like to have given it a better score but I simply couldn't because of the ghastly presentation.

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Definitely not your normal Jack story

I loved it, but doubt the people in Victorian London said "cops" or "journal" really

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Disappointed

I have a number of friends who are authors. I tell them to be precious about who voices their story. It can make a big difference as to the enjoyment.

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Unexpected, surprising and enjoyable.

This story started very slowly . Fortunately it took a large leap and speeded up becoming very interesting and surprising so I didn't want to stop listening to it.
I enjoyed this story very much and I thought the narration was very good too.
This is a diffinitely a different take on Jack the Ripper.
worth a listening to = enjoy, I know I did.

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Good story

It’s a good story and the narrator who does the voice of Constance is great but the one who does Emily is a bit over the top but still quite good, it’s a great story of what it must have been like at the time the ripper was running rampant around Whitechapel, nice for the story to not be just fully based around the victims for once like you’d expect. I really enjoyed it!

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Intriguing tale well told

Excellent and Clever twist to an old tale. A mix of Supernatual and Suspense set in an atmospheric historical period, with realistic and interesting characters. Well worth the listen, you won't to stop until the end.

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Well paced multi-layered mystery story with gentle ghost element

I thought this was brilliant, and very well narrated. I liked the subtlety of the spiritual element. Highly recommended.

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wonderful

wow, this book had me clinging to every word. A very clever way of telling such a terrifying part of history.

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Gripping!

I loved this story and can't wait to listen to the next one, though sadly book 2 doesn't seem to have made it onto audible as yet. I wonder if book 3 might stand alone as well as this one has.

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A ripper of a story...! :)

Can't understand the negative reviews about the narration. Both narrators were brilliant, clear and animated without being over the top. Both have lovely voices. Took a few chapters to get into but once I did it was great. It's such an unusual story, I really like the premise of it. It's not overly gory...personally I'd have liked a bit more romping and blood and guts but that's just me :D,
It was a little slow in places...but just a tiny bit.
There's definitely so much that can be expanded on to make other great stories.

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