April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer's reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac; and failed to find him.
Just days after the cruel murder of Bennet Drake, and despite being outlaws, his old friends Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan are drawn together to avenge his death.
After the public humiliation of Frank Thatcher, Shine re-doubles his efforts to capture Reid and Jackson. Meanwhile, Long Susan asks an old friend to help get her son back.
It seems that Augustus Dove has won and all is lost for Reid - but is it? As Jackson and Long Susan prepare to leave London, can they bring themselves to leave their friend behind?
Reid has one final enemy to defeat and must find sufficient forensic evidence to prove that Dove killed Robin Sumner - but will he ever live peacefully in nightmarish Whitechapel?
