The fourth installment in a chilling World War II crime mystery series featuring undertaker Francis Hancock, by the author of the Inspector Ikmen Mysteries In East London, 1940, Francis Hancock finds the brutally eviscerated body of a woman in a derelict house. Francis" sister, Nancy, knew the victim. Then, shockingly, two more murders follow. Rumors start to spread through the East End about a modern day Jack the Ripper. When a fourth woman is murdered, Nancy admits that she knew all of the victims, and Francis sets out to find the killer, discovering a trail of murderous resentment that goes back decades.