Author: chriskarlsen

A veteran, Detective Rudyard Bloodstone has fought a brutal battle and witnessed war horrors that haunt his nightmares. Now one of those horrors has followed him home from Africa.A vicious predator, the Cape cobra, can kill a man in thirty minutes. A suspect using the snake as a weapon in robberies is terrorizing London. When the crimes escalate into murder, a victim’s daughter,Honoria Underhill, … daughter,Honoria Underhill, becomes the focus of the killer. After several attempts on her life, Scotland Yard threatens to takeover the high profile case. With few leads to follow, Bloodstone and his partner must now fight…

The summer of 1889 was proving to be a strange one for Detective Inspector Rudyard Bloodstone and his partner.They had a sexual pervert loose. The man didn’t actually harm women but threatened them at knifepoint, fondling them, and ultimately stealing their stockings.Far more serious were the murders of influential men, which appeared random other than they were all killed by arsenic poison. … arsenic poison. Never had he and his partner had cases with so little workable evidence.Also, the rivalry between him and his detective nemesis at London’s other police department was intensifying. That nemesis was the boxing champion of…