The Yard Alex Grecian Review

The yard by alex grecian review.

The yard alex grecian review.

Grecian is the author of several bestselling thrillers including the saint of wolves and butchers and five novels featuring scotland yard s murder squad. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. May 25th 2012 alex grecian s exuberantly grisly serial killer tale set in 1889 london picks up where the ripper left off. But not in debut novelist alex grecian s historical thriller the yard where the murderer stumbles from killing to killing chases the child he has abducted.

Newly promoted detective walter day is given the responsibility of finding the murderer of a fellow detective who has been gruesomely stuffed into a trunk. After leaving a career in advertising working on accounts that included harley davidson and the great american smokeout alex returned to his first love. The sleuth is confused too and there appears to be no reason we the readers should give the ass of a rat. Alex grecian has given us a solid bit of insight into the early days of scotland yard and the development of police work as we know it today.

I started getting annoyed when at the beginning of chapter 2 colonel sir edward bradford commissioner of scotland yard calls the sleuth into his mahogany lined office and proceeds to make no sense at all for several pages. The yard reviews if charles dickens isn t somewhere clapping his hands for this one wilkie collins surely is the new york times book review. Alex grecian is the national bestselling author of the contemporary thriller the saint of wolves and butchers the novels of scotland yard s murder squad including the yard the black country the devil s workshop the harvest man and lost and gone forever as well as the critically acclaimed graphic novels proof and rasputin. The yard the black country the devil s workshop the harvest man and lost and gone forever plus the original murder squad ebook the blue girl.