RipHer - Definately not a Valens Story

I wanted to make you aware there is another side Sherrel.  Under the pen name Lee Leslie, I have written a novel very different from the Valens world and one that I have wanted to write for a very long time.  If interested you can find sample chapters on WattPad, and of course on Amazon – This will be going out to other vendors soon.  Let me know what you think – and yes after New Year’s  celebrations, we will return to the world of Valens and the myth and legends that have begun to grow in a world where there is really someone to look out for us. RipHer  by Lee Leslie takes a look at the Jack the Ripper murders through eyes that gaze upon the long ago killings and see a twisted path of possibilities. At the time of these horrific killings, the world was a very different place.  Fingerprints had been touted as a form of identification, but police departments around the world laughed and refused to try this as a method of detection. There were not forensics and chasing the killer was often about bullying those around the police into making a statement, any statement, regardless of truth.The world was a place where the industrial revolution had thousands leaving their farms and arriving in the larger cities in droves.  The jobs were not as plentiful as they people who needed them and women could only work in menial jobs. If they were hurt or failed in any way, they were cast aside because there were thousands of others looking for jobs and ready to take their place.  A population of poor and disenfranchised people became the population of the Whitechapel area of London.In RipHer the investigator is a woman. Dr. Rowena Radcliffe.  Dr. Radcliffe is a woman with an open mind and an independent spirit.  She has spent her medical career learning all she can about the how victims are selected by their tormentors and what makes men kill.  Returning to England from America, she sees the poor and wretched people ignored by the rest of the world.  Rowena opens a clinic in Whitechapel to provide care to these men and woman.  There she meets five women who become famous for the way they died.  The story utilized many of the facts and speculations as noted in newspapers and reports of the events of the time.  The characters names, as appeared in the records are used but their thoughts, conversations and actions are all fictional. The novel ends with thethe fictional identification of the killer and a reason we never learned who it was.  I just had to write the story my way because we will never know what really happened or who really did it.Look for the books of Sherrel Lee and Lee Leslie on Amazon.  Next week there will be no post as i will be with family for the holidays.  Returning next year.  Have wonderful, safe and loving holidays with family and friends.