Another 5 -Star Review for 'A Study in Red'

[Brian L Porter]

'A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper' has just received another excellent 5-star readers review on the site of Amazon.co.uk The review is reproduced below, and the full list of reviews on the Amazon UK site can be seen at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Study-Red-Secret-Journal-Ripper/dp/15540452...
5.0 out of 5 stars Beware! Jack the Ripper walks the streets again!!, 29 April 2009
By Eileen Thornton (Scottish Borders) - See all my reviews

When Robert Cavendish inherits a strange set of papers from his father, he has no idea what he is about to discover. But when he begins to turn the age-old pages, handed down from generation to generation, he learns that what he now has before him is the secret journal of Jack the Ripper himself. As the story unfolds, Cavendish feels he is being drawn into the mind of the Ripper. Yet, frightened though he is, he can't stop reading the journal, he feels must continue his quest until the bitter end.

Brian L Porter has so very cleverly mixed fact with fiction that I found Jack the Ripper was being vividly brought to life before my eyes. I have always been fascinated with any writings of Jack the Ripper. However, this was different. The fictitious, secret journal, portraying the murders in Whitechapel during the last months of 1888, could really have been written by Jack the Ripper himself. In fact, the descriptions of how the victims were butchered, together with the innermost feelings of the murderer seemed so real that I still find it difficult to believe that it is a work of fiction. It almost seems as though Brian L Porter managed to get into the Ripper's head. This is a brilliant, spine-tingling novel. I found it to be a superb un-put-downable read and I can thoroughly recommend it to everyone who enjoys a dark sinister novel.

Eileen Thornton - Author of The Trojan Project, an Action Thriller.

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[J. F. Juzwik]

Congratulations, Brian, and the reviewer is correct. It is difficult to believe that your book is a work of fiction. The way it reads, it really is as if the journal had to have been written by Jack himself. That's what makes it such a frightening read, and yet you cannot put it down. Joyce