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To Hell and Back
London 1888. After a sensational trail at the Central Criminal Court, Satanist Edward Sinistrari is condemned to hang for ritual murder. However, he escapes from the gallows at Newgate Prison, leaving a bloody trail in his wake. DCI Charles Collingwood and Sgt Gimlet of Scotland Yard are assigned to track Sinistrari down. Gimlet is murdered but Collingwood is determined to see Sinistrari brought to justice. He is closing in on his quarry when Jack the Ripper begins his string of gruesome murders. London is awash with blood. Collingwood -and his daughter Lucy- will soon discover the full force of Sinistrari’ s powers and vengeance. To Hell and Back is a gripping historical novel, part crime fiction and part supernatural thriller. Giles Ekins trained as an architect in London. He is also the author of Murder By Illusion and Message From A Dead Girl . He lives in Sheffield.
329 pages, Paperback
Published February 7, 2019
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February 11, 2019
Great novel at the time of the Whitechapel murders and Jack the Ripper but with a Satanic twist. Couldn’t stop reading.
July 15, 2020
This is the first thing I've read by Ekins
To Hell and Back is my introduction to Ekins and his Cheif Inspector for Collingswood of CID, Scotland Yard. Set in the 1880's when fingerprints were not yet used in building a case you might take to court, persistence and flashes of insight were about the only tools law enforcement had available against criminals. I'm this instance, the criminal is a perfect villain -- a Satanist gentleman who brutally murders young women on holidays for his Dark Lord (Walpurgis and All Hallow's Eve). The tension is much the water than what one expects in a n historical procedural. I HAD to finish it because I could not have gone to sleep until certain confinements were resolved.Excellent character development and milieu setting. May have been my first by this author but won't be my last.
To Hell and Back is my introduction to Ekins and his Cheif Inspector for Collingswood of CID, Scotland Yard. Set in the 1880's when fingerprints were not yet used in building a case you might take to court, persistence and flashes of insight were about the only tools law enforcement had available against criminals. I'm this instance, the criminal is a perfect villain -- a Satanist gentleman who brutally murders young women on holidays for his Dark Lord (Walpurgis and All Hallow's Eve). The tension is much the water than what one expects in a n historical procedural. I HAD to finish it because I could not have gone to sleep until certain confinements were resolved.Excellent character development and milieu setting. May have been my first by this author but won't be my last.
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