Diary of the Dead — John Matthews

New York 1893: is a mystery killer preying on Manhattan's elite? . . . When a trail of High Society girls die without obvious cause, an untouchable detective and forensic analyst are drafted in to catch the serial killer.After several debutantes from rich families are targeted in mysterious circumstances, aristocratic English pathologist Finley Jameson and streetwise New York cop Joseph Argenti start a deeply challenging manhunt.At the same time, Argenti finds himself in life threatening battles against some of the city's most notorious gangsters, all with self-enriching agendas, who are trying to either corrupt or kill him.The girls' deaths have been mainly been put down to natural causes - but there is nothing natural about young women dying suddenly in their prime.It seems New York's High Society has been too quick to brush over the deaths to stop hysteria over a serial killer from exploding.Jameson and Argenti go back over the cases to see how many might be linked.And as their investigation intensifies they start to wonder if there might be not one serial killer, but two...Diary of the Dead is the second crime thriller in the Jameson & Argenti Victorian mystery series: hard-boiled urban investigations into serial killers, packed full of suspense.