A review by anaffpereira
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

5.0

This book is important! Jack the Ripper became the stuff of legends, and even today he captivates people’s minds… while his victims fall into oblivion. How is this fair? This book makes the five canonical victims seen and heard. As the author puts it, “(…) the villain as metamorphosed into the protagonist; an evil, psychotic, mysterious payer who is so clever that he managed to evade detection even today. In order to gawp and examine this miracle of malevolence we have figuratively stepped over the bodies of those he murdered (…). The larger his profile grows, the more those victims seem to fade.”