There was the Jack the Ripper killings, the romance (love triangle) and then another aspect that I won't mention because it will be a spoiler. I also felt a little confused as I read, like maybe a little too much was going on. I didn't realize this was a paranormal story until I was midway through but I feel a little dumb, visions should have clued me in. This story puts a different if implausible twist on who Jack the Ripper was, but it was an interesting story. I think we all know the Jack the Ripper stories so I won't go into the details. Dying by the hand of a psychopathic murderer. Bartlett, has taken a special interest in her education and in her, treating her as an equal instead of just a woman, as many men would have in that day.But, then, patients from the Whitechapel Hospital start dying the day they are voluntarily released. And her grandmother's friend that runs the hospital, Dr. In fact, she has determined she wants to go to medical college. She's not the privileged girl they expect and she proves not only invaluable but extremely intelligent and willing to learn. She's an expert with a knife and gone without food at times for lack of money. But, they don't know she's grown up on the streets of Dublin and lived a hard life in between her mother's governess jobs. At first, the work is gruesome and some of the doctors and nurses don't think she's up to the challenge of the hard labor being the granddaughter of Lady Westfield. Abbie grew up in Dublin while her mother worked as a governess for various wealthy families. Her grandmother disowned Abbie's mother for eloping with a French poet.

And her mother and grandmother were estranged at the time of her mother's death. In fact, she spends as much time as possible there to escape the teas and gossip her grandmother insists she attend. Hmm, that description doesn't quite tell the whole story.Arabella, or Abbie as her friends call her, feels trapped in the Kensington high society her grandmother wants her to travel in and jumps at the opportunity to work at the hospital in Whitechapel.

Ripper by amy carol reeves