The Business of Blood, an all-new
intriguing historical mystery from USA
Today bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne, is available now!
London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona
Mahoney’s trade, and business, as they say, is booming.
Dying is the only thing people do with
any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the
corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known
victim of Jack the Ripper. It’s been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary’s
blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper,
but Fiona hasn’t forgotten. She hasn’t stopped searching for Jack.
When she’s called to a murder in the
middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar
fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary’s old home.
The relentless and irritatingly handsome Inspector Grayson Croft warns her away
from the case. She might have listened, if she hadn’t found a clue in the
blood. A clue that will lead her down a path from which there is no return.
As a killer cuts a devastating swath
through London, a letter written in blood arrives at her door, and it is only
then that Fiona realizes just how perilous her endeavor is. For she has drawn
the attention of an obsessive evil, and is no longer the hunter, but the prey.
Fiona Mahoney is in the business of
blood. But she’s not the only one.
With intriguing twists, blood-chilling
discoveries, and dazzling prose, USA Today Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne
shows that a woman’s work is never done, even when is sleuthing out a serial
killer.
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Excerpt
Aidan stood behind me for a moment, motionless and silent. I
could hear every word ever spoken and unspoken between us spilling onto the
ground at my back.
“I understand what the years have done to you, Fiona. I know
all the reasons you do what you do.” The pity in his voice summoned a scream
from deep, deep in my soul, and I swallowed three times to keep it from
escaping. “I appreciate that you have to be cold sometimes. But have a care
this profession of yours doesn’t make you heartless.”
Heartless.
Struck by an idea, I frantically searched until I found Frank
Sawyer’s heart in the center of the basin. An unceasingly strong muscle upon
which one’s entire existence depended. I counted four chambers. Four valves. I
stared hard, unblinking in the wan light until Aidan’s retreating footsteps
plodded away.
I’d never found Mary Kelly’s heart.
Every single part of her had been catalogued in all its
exposed and grotesque exactitude. But not her heart. The Ripper had taken that,
along with her life.
I searched for the palpitations to prove Aidan wrong and
found them, faint and fluttering, against my rib cage. I still had a heart, even
though he owned pieces of it. And yet, I’d stood over too many corpses of those
I loved, each time expecting my bleeding heart to just…stop. It should, I
think. When a heart was broken as many times as mine, it shouldn’t work
anymore. But somehow, it still did. It kept going.
And so long as it beat in its chamber, I’d search for the
Ripper.
About Kerrigan
Kerrigan
has done many things to pay the bills, from law enforcement to belly dance
instructor. Now she’s finally able to have the career she’d decided upon at
thirteen when she announced to her very skeptical family that she was going to
“grow up to be a romance novelist.” Whether she’s writing about Celtic Druids,
Victorian bad boys, or brash Irish FBI Agents, Kerrigan uses her
borderline-obsessive passion for history, her extensive Celtic ancestry, and
her love of Shakespeare in almost every story.
She lives in a little Victorian coast town on the Olympic Peninsula in
Washington State with her wonderful husband. When she’s not writing you can
find her sailing, beach combing, kayaking, visiting wineries, breweries, and
restaurants with friends, and hiking…okay…wandering aimlessly clenching bear
spray in the mountains.
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