Andrew Taylor

Isabel Allende’s Ripper doesn’t grab you by the throat

Interweaving a thriller with the backstories of a large cast of characters, the Chilean author give us two underwhelming novels in one

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issue 15 February 2014
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  • Ripper

    Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne

    Fourth Estate, pp. 478

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