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The Business of Blood

Fiona Mahoney Mystery, Book 1

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The Business of Blood

By: Kerrigan Byrne
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It's been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary's blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn't forgotten.

And she hasn't stopped searching for Jack.

When she's called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary's old home. The relentless, overbearing, and irritatingly handsome Inspector Grayson Croft warns her away from the case. She might have listened, if she hadn't found a clue in the blood. A clue that will lead her down a path from which there is no return. As a killer cuts a devastating swath through London, a letter written in blood arrives at her door, and it is only then that Fiona realizes just how perilous her endeavor is. For she has drawn the attention of an obsessive evil and is no longer the hunter, but the prey.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Kerrigan Byrne (P)2020 Tantor Historical Mystery Romance Victorian Fiction Murder Historical Mystery Romance
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Not sure why people get so wound up about historical accuracy especially as this is clearly fiction. I knew the narrator's voice straight away as she has narrated other books, although without the Irish accent, I could hear some of those characters in the voices of these male characters. I think she's a great narrator. A good twist on an horrific time in London history, I've researched Jack for years. Having Oscar as her neighbour was quite funny, and the names of the Ripper's real victims was respectful as was the inclusion of Aberline.

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Loved every second of the story. Whereas normally I watch a bit of tv in the evenings I kept listening till late till I finished it. It was so tense and intriguing. This is not my usual genre but I live ak if Kerrigan Byrne's books so I thought I'd try it out and it didn't disappoint.
Unfortunately I can't say the same about the narrator. She's ok but I can't bear her voice for the Male characters. Her voice is weak and sounds shaky. I don't usually buy books narrated by her, only when they're ones I really really want to listen to.
Now on to the next one.

loved the story

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In my opinion. I’ve adored each and every one of her books. 100%. This is the first one I’ve read/heard in a series which has no smutty romance in it. There are at least three glaring historical inaccuracies which I can forgive because I love Kerrigan Byrne. The narrator’s accent was far too pervasive and detracted from the whole. By the third time I heard “Whitechapurll” I was ready to hurl the device across the room. I stuck with it, suspended disbelief and will most definitely go on to the next book in this series.

Kerrigan Byrne can do no wrong

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loved everything about this book. The story the people are so believable.
I look forward to reading more of the series.

absolutely brilliant

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I really enjoyed this story and loved the narrator. The next 2 are OK but they changed the narrator on those.

Good story

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