Legend - by Koo Yu (Paperback)

About the Book

Four-thousand-year-old immortal Finn Parker hunts Jack the Ripper in the yellow fog of 1888 London. Posing as a Mayfair lady, she tracks a killer with ancient skills. A dark historical crime mystery perfect for fans of The Alienist.

Book Synopsis

London, 1888. As Jack the Ripper's murders spread fear through Whitechapel, Finn Parker refuses to accept the story taking shape in the newspapers.

Finn has lived for more than four thousand years, surviving behind changing names and identities. Now posing as a wealthy Mayfair painter, she turns her accumulated knowledge and finely honed abilities towards the hunt for London's most notorious killer.

With the help of her young companion Emily and Emily's journalist uncle Paul, Finn follows a trail through lodging houses, newspaper offices and the shadowed streets of the East End. Real suspects emerge alongside men absent from the accepted history, but each answer exposes another deception. When Emily disappears, Finn must uncover who is directing the killings before another victim is claimed.

The evidence points towards the explanation history will record, but Finn is about to discover what really happened.

Legend: The Ripper's Eternal Echo is a fast-paced historical mystery that weaves the documented Whitechapel murders into an inventive alternative account of the unsolved case.

Review Quotes

"An inventive, fast-paced reimagining of the infamous Whitechapel slayings."

- Kirkus Reviews

"Yu has brought fresh life to the oft-told Jack the Ripper story."

- Kirkus Reviews

"London's sights, sounds, and scents turn this city into a main character."

- Patricia Furstenberg, Historical Novel Society