We are delighted to be publishing a new work in Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler series, which began with Goodnight, Mr. Holmes and stars Irene Adler, the character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

When several young women are discovered brutally slaughtered in a lavishly appointed room in a Parisian brothel, the police are forced to bring in Irene because "someone" in a position of power has made a discreet request for her help. But is she really to find the truth or is her presence part of a complicated plot to conceal the murderer's identity?

The true horror -- and the thing that has Irene most concerned -- is that the killings bear an uncanny resemblance to a series of murders that took place in London just a short time earlier.

In an ill-kempt part of town known as White Chapel . . .