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Isabel Allende's Ripper doesn't grab you by the throat

Interweaving a thriller with the backstories of a large cast of characters, the Chilean author give us two underwhelming novels in one

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

Ripper Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne

Fourth Estate, pp.478, £12.99, ISBN: 9780007548941

Isabel Allende is not an author one usually associates with the thrillers about serial killers. Ripper, however, lives up to its title. It’s the name of an online game, set in Jack the Ripper’s London. Six players — five teenagers and an elderly man — inhabit their personas with fanatical fervour.

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