The Yard

by Alex Grecian

Book Overview

As Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London comes to an end, a new era of depravity sets the stage for the first gripping mystery featuring the detectives of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. "If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this one, Wilkie Collins surely is."-- The New York Times Book Review Victorian London--a violent cesspool of squalid sin. The twelve detectives of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad are expected to solve the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425261271
• ISBN13: 9780425261279
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

I Loved it !

This is a Fantastic book ! The topic and era was a brilliant thesis ! The characters were being developed for a series and what a Great series it is ! The development of the story was well presented with great detail and the individual characters were the best part. They grew perfectly right along with the story.Excellent ending! I ended up reading the entire series ! Highly recommended!!

Waaaaay Too Many Characters & No Development.

Good lord this book has way too much going on. I get that the author is trying to setup a world in which to base a series off of...but this book struggles to establish any firm characters in said world. The author's storytelling relies on starting a subplot in one chapter, then skipping to another in the following chapter, then jumping back to where the first subplot left off in the next...rinse and repeat for 300+ pages. All of this with little or very poorly written techniques to try and tie them altogether. When I had finished I was left feeling incredibly let down and as if I'd wasted my time.