Dr. Alistair Finch is a brilliant, methodical forensic pathologist, a man who reads the stories of the dead from the silent evidence left on their bones. His career, dedicated to giving a voice to victims, is cut short in a courthouse bombing. He awakens with a gasp in the grimy, gaslit world of 1888 London, inhabiting the body of Arthur Coyle, a struggling young medical student with more idealism than prospects. The city is gripped by a chilling, primal fear as a shadowy figure begins his brutal reign of terror—a killer the press will soon call Jack the Ripper. Armed with a future century’s knowledge of criminal profiling, forensics, and germ theory, Arthur finds himself drawn into the frantic, fruitless investigation led by Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard. In a world that believes in miasmas and phrenology, Arthur’s attempts to introduce concepts like crime scene preservation and psychological profiling are met with ridicule and suspicion, making him a pariah and even a suspect. He must navigate the treacherous social strata of Victorian England, fighting not just a monstrous killer, but the very ignorance of the age, to stop the murders that history has deemed unsolvable.
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