{"id":60812,"date":"2014-05-28T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=60812"},"modified":"2014-05-28T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:22:29","slug":"murder-by-sarah-pinborough-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/murder-by-sarah-pinborough-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder by Sarah Pinborough book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following directly on from <strong><em>Mayhem<\/em><\/strong>, Sarah Pinborough\u2019s <strong><em>Murder<\/em><\/strong> finds Victorian surgeon Thomas Bond in even murkier waters. Time has healed most of the mental wounds left by the Thames Torso murders, but the shadow of Jack the Ripper still lingers over London, and Dr Bond cannot shake the feeling that something still waits in the river.<\/p>\n<p>When new evidence and old secrets prompt him to look into the events of the past, Dr Bond discovers that the evil force he thought he had destroyed is alive and well, and ready to wreak havoc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Murder<\/em><\/strong> is more of a slow-burn than its predecessor, as Pinborough takes the time to establish how the intervening years have affected her protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bond has been able to mostly put the events of the first novel out of his mind and make his romantic interest in the now-widowed Juliana known, and it\u2019s the slow but deliberate dismantling of the security that he\u2019s built for himself that make up much of the novel\u2019s first half.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re given a less-detailed class cross section of late-19<sup>th<\/sup> Century London here, with a good deal of the narrative given over to Juliana\u2019s American paramour. That being said, there\u2019s still plenty of horrifying crimes based on real cases and, as with <strong><em>Mayhem<\/em><\/strong>, apparent diversions from the main thrust of the plot are all leading somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness isn\u2019t meant to last in <strong><em>Murder<\/em><\/strong>, and the cosy familiarity of these domestic dramas is soon shattered by the visceral shocks of the second half as the bottom falls out of Bond\u2019s world with grisly results.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Murder<\/em><\/strong> doesn\u2019t quite have the bone-chilling atmosphere of <strong><em>Mayhem<\/em><\/strong>, but it\u2019s looking in a slightly different direction. It\u2019s a more personal story that pulls the reader into a compelling tale of madness and, indeed, murder. It\u2019s grim, gruesome and gripping, and it\u2019s tremendous fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Pinborough&#8217;s dark chiller Murder is a grim and gripping follow-up to Mayhem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":60816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,8],"tags":[3632,3802,2013],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sarah-Pinborough.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}