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Mar 03, 2014
An American teen, Rory, arrives in London to attend boarding school just as the city is beginning to experience a rash of gruesome Jack the Ripper copycat murders. Because the bodies have been found in neighbourhoods close to the school, students worry that the next murder could happen on the campus. Everyone is tense; many students are justifiably terrified. Rory has the special ability to “see” ghosts and otherworldly beings. On the night of the next murder - which happens on the school campus - Rory glimpses the escaping killer. None of the other students see him. Why? He’s a ghost. Rory is soon contacted by the members of a clandestine British government ghost-policing squad. Joining forces, they search together for the ghostly killer – a revengeful monster who proves to be absolutely ruthless and diabolical. In the end, it’s the killer who finds and targets Rory in a terrifying conclusion to the story. This well-written, thoroughly suspenseful book, with its many twists and turns (and a romance, too), is the first title in Maureen Johnson’s brilliant Shades of London series.