If Looks Could Kill
The author will be joined in conversation by Jack the Ripper researcher Michael Hawley.
A humorous, resilient and defiant love song to sisterhood, Julie Berry’s new novel is a true-crime, mythic odyssey that pits Jack the Ripper against Medusa. The New York Times bestselling author will be joined in conversation by historian Michael Hawley, an expert on Rochester’s own Jack the Ripper suspect, Dr. Francis Tumblety.
More about If Looks Could Kill:
It’s autumn 1888, and Jack the Ripper is on the run. As London police close in, he flees England for New York City seeking new victims. But a primal force of female vengeance has had enough. With serpents for hair and a fearsome gaze, an awakened Medusa is hunting for one thing: Jack.
Julie Berry is the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovely War, recipient of the 2020 NCTE Walden Award and SCBWI Golden Kite Award; The Passion of Dolssa, a 2017 Printz Honor winner; All the Truth That’s in Me; The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place; and the Wishes and Wellingtons trilogy. Her picture books include The Night Frolic, Happy Right Now, and Cranky Right Now. J. She lives in western New York, where she owns Author’s Note, an independent bookstore.
Michael Hawley researches the 1888 unsolved Jack the Ripper murders mystery with particular emphasis on prime suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety, who is buried in Rochester, NY.. The author of Dr. Francis Tumblety & the Railway Ripper (2023), Jack the Ripper Suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety (2018), and The Ripper’s Haunts (2016), he has appeared as a Jack the Ripper expert on the History Channel’s History’s Greatest Mysteries series and lectured on Jack the Ripper murders in Liverpool, England, as well as in multiple cities across the eastern United States. He is currently a co-host with Allen R. Warren on NBC Radio’s House of Mystery.
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