Lock up your daughters, Jack's back!
An Amazon (UK) Top 20 Best Seller, (Jack the Ripper book listing chart), Winner of The Authors Lounge Best Cover Art Design Award, May 2008, and a CK2S Kwips & Kritiques Recommended Read, February 2008.
Murder, ‘orrible murder!
Following the death of his father, psychiatrist Robert Cavendish is bequeathed a set of papers and a strange age-yellowed journal. As he unpacks and begins to read the papers he is astounded to discover that he is holding the journal of the infamous Whitechapel Murderer who stalked the streets of the East End of London in the autumn of 1888. The pages are warm to the touch, and a force of great malevolence seems to guide Robert’s journey through the mists of time as he is transported by the words upon the pages into the mind, and the world of the one and only Jack the Ripper!
His mind begins to feel the pull of another time, another place, as images of the Rippers crimes fill his thoughts and Robert is beset by waking nightmares of such sadistic and terrible bloodletting that he begins to doubt his sanity.
As he delves further and further into the demented world of the killer Robert begins to sense that his family has been hiding a terrible secret for over a century, a secret that he knows will only be revealed when he completes the task of reading ‘The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper’.
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Book Title: A Study In Red (The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper)
Author Name: Brian L. Porter
ISBN #: 9781554045273
Publisher Name: Double Dragon Publishing
Date Released: January 2008
Genre: Horror; Historical Fiction; Thriller
Book Format: print
Rating (See Rating Guide at bottom of form): 4-1/2 Klovers
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Story Summary Robert Cavendish is bereft with grief at his father’s recent passing. He was also surprised to learn his father bequeathed Robert a mysterious journal to be read after his death. Read by him and him alone. As he reads the journal, he comes to realize that he holds in his hands the actual rantings and admissions of Jack the Ripper! But that, as they say, is only the beginning. From those pages Robert discovers the answer to old mysteries and atrocities, answers that lead him down a path of horror and insanity. What affect can the secret ravings of a murderer such as Jack the Ripper have on a person? And what connection did Robert’s father have to this secret journal?
Your Opinion
I was immediately struck by the enormous amount of research that went into A Study in Red (The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper). It brought 18th century London to life, making the story almost palpable. For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been investigated, written about, and discussed, but never like this. I could feel the cobblestones under my feet, hear the horses and carriages and smell the foul air of the London back alleyways.
The journal was an interesting tool, bringing the reader directly into Jack’s world and the insanity inflicting him. Experiencing the journal with Robert was intense as the mysteries unfold page by page. The suspense kept me engrossed well into the late evening hours, just as Robert had… I can feel the goose bumps now.
The identity of Jack the Ripper has been explored, but never in such a deliciously nail biting manner. Although fiction, the possibilities of who Jack really was and where he came from as well as his unfortunate victims felt all too real thanks to the obvious hard work of the author to create this sensational tale.
Reviewed By: Terri
Email: terri@ck2skwipsandkritiques.com
A Study in Red (The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper.) By Brian L. Porter
1888 and London is a grand metropolis of dark alleys and grim tenements, cut off from the sun by thick clouds of smog which also paint the buildings black. It's the screams, so near, so common, that sends the shivers up your spine. Hardly anyone bothers with those screams as they echo through the streets. Night by night the helpless citizens must walk so very fearfully though these streets. They live in this brutal society where even the police are unable to do anything against a foe as illusive as the shadows. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets, his name on everybody's lips. He is the terrible evil that lurks in the shadows, attacking the women of Whitechapel so brutally, so callously, so viciously. Cries of Murder are uttered, drifting on the icy breeze, and everyone knows that he has struck again...
Over a century has passed. With the death of his father Robert receives a mysterious old package from his solicitor, full of letters and the request that they be read in sequence along with an ancient journal. This small pile of aged papers seems so innocuous and yet the weight of the words written within can be felt, if you give pause and wonder where that feeling of dread is coming from. His family have been harbouring a secret, a dark secret, a terrible secret – one that might destroy the very soul of the man who must bear this burden.
Brian L. Porter has approached the writing of a Jack the Ripper novel from a new and exciting angle, dispensing with the most obvious routes, he has found the path less travelled and in doing so has found the breathtaking scenery that makes the story work. He has written a story that has more humanity and depth of feeling than one could ever imagine possible given the subject. He has crafted a tale bound to move even the most stoical of hearts.
A Study in Red is seductive; it pulls you in, it draws you closer, it whispers in your ear. You cannot leave it, you cannot put it down – not until the very end – and by then it is far too late; it has you, mind body and soul.
--Graeme S. Houston, Publisher: Balderdash International Literary Journal.
Now available in e-book, and in paperback, 'A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper' will appear in both paperback and e-book formats. This dark psychological thriller will be published by Double Dragon Publishing in Canada, and is the culmination of many years of study into the Ripper phenomenon. See http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-524-X The e-book is also available from Fictionwise at http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook54475.htm?cache
THE PAPERBACK
ISBN 1-55404-527-4 Paperback, available from Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1554045274/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top UK readers may prefer to buy from Amazon.co.uk at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Study-Red-Secret-Journal-Ripper/dp/1554045274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202482660&sr=1-1
Also from Barnes and Noble at http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=A+Study+in+Red&z=y
and from Powells at http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9781554045273-1
also at Waterstones: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6145786 and at W H Smith http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-A+Study+in+Red+-9781554045273.html from whom the book can be ordered for home delivery or collection in-store.
ISBN 1-55404-527-4 (Paperback)
The video trailer for A Study in Red was the winner
of the public vote for 'Most Intriguing Book Trailer' in the May 2009
round of The New Covey Trailer Awards, picking up a massive 30% of the
vote in a competition that included a total of 30 video trailers.
A January 2008 release from Eternal Press.
Murder, Mayhem and Mexico, a trilogy of short stories set in Mexico is due for release by Eternal Press on 7th October 2007. Containing two crime thrillers and 'something a little different' this e-book can be obtained by visiting the publisher's website at 
reasonably priced at $2.95 
Brian's forthcoming paperback release, 'The Nemesis Cell' (4RV Publishing LLC) has won The New Covey Cover Awards, Most Eye Catching Cover design award for December 2008. For further details please see 
Another award -winner, as 'Purple Death' wins The Authors Lounge Best Cover Illustration Award for June 2008
Purple Death
