My first Ripper Book

As a former criminology student, I read many textbooks on many subjects to do with crime throughout my three years of academic study, but this is only the second academic style book that I’ve finished since I started reviewing the crime genre. The first of these being Dr Sue Black’s Written in Bone.



The style is very much different to what I’m used to reading in fiction, but now having partially written my own factual books on both my own experiences of criminology and law and my unpublished book around the fiction and fact of domestic violence, I’ve become more aware on how to do proper analysis of books likes this.



There are many different theories purporting to tell us whom Jack the Ripper is, but having only read one book on the subject in full, I cannot confidently say whether Sarah’s conclusions are correct or not. I suppose this is my background as a former academic, in trying to be certain. But the confidence of her assertions and the way she portrays the book, opens the possibility that her opinion of whom the killer may be correct.



This book was well argued, with logical reasons why the gaps between the murders occurred and justifications for the geographical map around the psychology of the killings was argued with use of other cases, which may have fallen within purview. This made it a really interesting read and I’m quite interested in discussing this with Sarah, alongside Matt Johnson, on the Crime Cymru panel that I’ve been asked to chair on True Crime.








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