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Although some may question Purdy’s paragraph-length sentences and period prose, no one can dispute that The Ripper’s Wife is a gripping page-turner. Hobbies) Lisa Dillman, Websters New Spanish Notebook DictionaryHarrap, The Rippers WifeBrandy Purdy, RebellionAndrew Paul, Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation And The Burden Of Economic DevelopmentJoseph E. She truly brings to life who Jack the Ripper was. What makes Purdy’s novel particularly memorable is her poetic prose, which takes readers beyond courtship-to-court, and onto the love “Florie” holds for her children: James and Gladys.īiographer Kate Colquhoun refuses to answer her own question in Did She Kill Him? and settle the hotly-disputed issue. The Rippers Wife is my favorite book written by Brandy Purdy. Purdy’s (The Boleyn Wife) latest is a dark recreation of London’s autumn of 1888, when Jack the Ripper terrorized Whitechapel.

I say this because the Maybrick trial and Whitechapel murders have both been chronicled many times before, and yet the author, Brandy Purdy, maintains an astonishing level of suspense – so astonishing that some Ripperologists might think they have developed amnesia. The release of a book 125 years on is unlikely to cause a sensation, yet The Ripper’s Wife, a work of historical fiction told through the eyes of the latter, should receive sensational reviews all the same. A suspenseful, spellbinding novel of love, jealousy, and murder, The Rippers Wife reimagines. The discovery of a diary a century later, allegedly written by the former in which he confesses to being Jack the Ripper, brought with it accusations of sensationalism from most in the media. Buy a cheap copy of The Rippers Wife book by Brandy Purdy. The alleged murder of James Maybrick, a middle-aged English cotton-broker, by his young American wife, Florence, caused a media sensation in 1889.

The Ripper's Wife by Brandy Purdy