Paris is for Romance…and Rippers
You’d think that a novel featuring Jack the Ripper would be set in London, right? This still-unknown serial killer from 1888 with the salacious moniker killed between five and 11 women in and around the Whitechapel slums, especially in the Wicked Quarter Mile. However, Ripper lore also makes some obscure references to Paris. I exploited them when I wrote the sequel to my paranormal crime mystery, The Ripper Letter. Since Track the Ripper had Parisian settings, I went to the C