A thrilling and chilling true crime read about the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer.

"Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." — The New York Times

Kaitlyn Greenidge—Guggenheim Fellow, Whiting Award winner, Harper's Bazaar features director, insightful social critic and historian, and outstanding writer—approaches novels as a puzzle, as a way to answer questions.

"My personal aesthetic will always be in favor of the stories that are strange, that are out of character, that highlight the complexities of power, that talk about the things none of us want to talk about, that would look really jarring on a Black History daily calendar."