A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller, The Guardian said of Mayhem. A virtuoso fantasy writer, Sarah Pinborough has won numerous awards including the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. In Mayhem Pinborough turns her attention to one of the most baffling and notorious crime sprees in Victorian times. Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims body parts, minus the heads. With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr.
