First published 2001
When struggling novelist Winifred Rudge travels to London to revive her career, she finds her old friend John Comestor has vanished. Worse, a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. As Winnie investigates, she uncovers a tangled family history with Charles Dickens, and a sinister force that may be the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Trapped in a supernatural drama, Winnie must confront the spectral remnants of her own past to survive.
Genres: historical-fiction, mystery, contemporary, ghost-stories
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: supernatural-elements, unreliable-narrator
Setting: England, London
Period: 19th-century
352 pages · Paperback · William Morrow and Company