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Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection
EVIL WAS SO SURE TO COME
A middle-aged neuroscientist's career is in the doldrums when he stumbles upon a notebook written by his ancestor, Dr Henry Jekyll, over a century ago. Working alone and late at night, he strives to recreate his forefather's discovery.
In the weeks that follow, a wave of murders breaks across London. Metropolitan Police officers race to trace the killer. But as the net closes on a young man with mental health problems, one driven detective begins to have her doubts. Can she catch the real killer, before he commits his most heinous act of all?
Released to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A middle-aged neuroscientist's career is in the doldrums when he stumbles upon a notebook written by his ancestor, Dr Henry Jekyll, over a century ago. Working alone and late at night, he strives to recreate his forefather's discovery.
In the weeks that follow, a wave of murders breaks across London. Metropolitan Police officers race to trace the killer. But as the net closes on a young man with mental health problems, one driven detective begins to have her doubts. Can she catch the real killer, before he commits his most heinous act of all?
Released to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
301 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2021
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Alexander Bayliss
4 books2 followersAlexander Bayliss lives on the south coast of England with his family. Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection is his first novel.
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February 8, 2021
This novel is VIOLENT and I LOVE IT! Nothing is gazed over. for example: He hit his head on the steering wheel. This novel: He hit his head on the steering wheel, there was blood, but it was on the outside of the car. He looks up and sees a woman pinned to a lamp post the life gone from her.
Let me rewind. 135 years ago the life was introduced to the possibility that a monster can, and does live in all of us, it just needs a way out. In this case, it is a super-secret serum a scientist tried to create years before. Enter a man who is bored and says "why not?" and doesn't know he succeeds.
What happens next is murder and mayhem, and unsuspecting co-workers.
Swear words? YES! Blood and gore?? YES!! Car chases, car wrecks, reckless sex, drugs...yes and yes, but it is all needed to push the plot and drive the reader mad along with the man who doesn't know he is hunted.
The end...wow. Read it in one sitting, because you will not put it down.
Bonus: Lovers of British fiction will love this. Every word, every detail, authentically British, right down to the stoplight he takes a deadly U-turn at.
Top novel of 2021 and it is only February.
Let me rewind. 135 years ago the life was introduced to the possibility that a monster can, and does live in all of us, it just needs a way out. In this case, it is a super-secret serum a scientist tried to create years before. Enter a man who is bored and says "why not?" and doesn't know he succeeds.
What happens next is murder and mayhem, and unsuspecting co-workers.
Swear words? YES! Blood and gore?? YES!! Car chases, car wrecks, reckless sex, drugs...yes and yes, but it is all needed to push the plot and drive the reader mad along with the man who doesn't know he is hunted.
The end...wow. Read it in one sitting, because you will not put it down.
Bonus: Lovers of British fiction will love this. Every word, every detail, authentically British, right down to the stoplight he takes a deadly U-turn at.
Top novel of 2021 and it is only February.
April 4, 2021
A fast paced, mind bending page turner!
Part psychological drama, part realistic police procedural, this well-researched homage is faithful to the Robert Louis Stephenson classic, whilst getting its hands dirty in a truly modern zeitgeist.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't put it down until it was finished! (in one day - it was a long train journey)
Alexander Bayliss really inhabits this tale of identity and passion struggling to break free. One is given to wonder if the author is the kind of guy who adopts amusing alter egos when he's pissed?
Part psychological drama, part realistic police procedural, this well-researched homage is faithful to the Robert Louis Stephenson classic, whilst getting its hands dirty in a truly modern zeitgeist.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't put it down until it was finished! (in one day - it was a long train journey)
Alexander Bayliss really inhabits this tale of identity and passion struggling to break free. One is given to wonder if the author is the kind of guy who adopts amusing alter egos when he's pissed?
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