BLEECKER STREET: Where Sin Never Sleeps
A Historical Thriller Based on the Infamous New York Ripper and the Woman Who Dared to Unmask Him
New York City, 1880s-a city of dazzling opulence and unspeakable horrors. The glittering Gilded Age masks a darker reality, where shadowy alleys whisper with danger, and a ruthless killer known as the New York Ripper stalks the night, leaving the butchered bodies of merchant seamen in his wake.
When Emma Gilder, an ambitious young reporter for The New York World, sets out to expose the truth behind the murders, she finds herself in a deadly race against time. Even the formidable Inspector Thomas Byrnes, famed for his unrelenting pursuit of criminals, struggles to untangle the gruesome mystery. But the deeper Emma digs, the more nightmarish the puzzle becomes-an escaped lunatic called the Mad Hatter, a chilling copycat murder in a waterfront hotel, and a trail of secrets that lead straight into the city's darkest heart.
As the body count rises and hysteria grips the streets, Emma is drawn into a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a faceless predator who always seems one step ahead. And just as the noose tightens, James Rankin-a dangerously charismatic man with secrets of his own-enters her life, awakening desires she cannot afford to indulge. But in a city where sin never sleeps, distractions can be deadly.
Inspired by true events, Bleecker Street is a pulse-pounding psychological thriller that pulls readers into the seething underbelly of 19th-century New York. From the lavish ballrooms of the elite to the vice-ridden tenements where crime festers, this is a tale of ambition, survival, and the fearless woman who dared to challenge the darkness-only to find herself staring into the abyss.
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A mass-killer called the New York Ripper is stalking the streets of Lower Manhattan-The Lincoln Avenger hunts a Civil War hero-A young Wellesley graduate goes undercover as a prostitute. Emma Gilder is a young, Wellesley graduate hired by Joseph Pulitzer as a journalist for the New York World newspaper. Her first street assignment is a murder case, which draws her into the killer's web. Emma becomes obsessed with finding the Bleecker Street killer whom the press is calling the New York Ripper. As the bodies continue to pile up, the city is shrouded in a nightmare of murder and mayhem. Inspector Thomas Byrnes and his prestigious Detective Bureau come under fire from the press as Emma challenges the police in the hunt for a mass-murderer. Emma comes face to face with a criminal element she has never experienced before and questions her ability as a journalist. While she struggles with her career, Emma must also salvage a withering romance, which has yet to bloom. Her closest friend, Victor Titus, a writer for the National Police Gazette, is being stalked by a ghost from the past; a madman called the 'Mad-hatter.' Victor possesses a critical piece of evidence in the assassination of President Lincoln that he has kept secret since the death of John Wilkes Booth. Together, Emma and Victor search for the killers until the killers find the two of them. The two journalists will suffer the rages of hell before the killings stop. Bleecker Street is a venture into the underbelly of New York corruption and crime, an awakening of the 1890s and the rampant spread of prostitution and deviant behavior throughout Lower Manhattan.
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