Inspector Edmund Reid travels deep into the seedy criminal London underworld hell-bent on taking back the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. But Reid isn't fighting this battle alone. He's joined by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, a hard man who prefers to let his fists do the talking, Captain Homer Jackson, a brash American with a voracious appetite for vice, and Long Susan, a madam with shady secrets.

Winter of 1899--the end of the Victorian Era. As the bitter cold descends upon Whitechapel, our heroes find themselves on the edge of peril -- a serial killer with subhuman desires and a superhuman ability to escape arrest is on the loose. Inspector Edmund Reid, Captain Homer Jackson, and Long Susan are living as fugitives, on the run from Assistant Commissioner Augustus Dove as the trio seeks to bring him and his cannibalistic brother Nathaniel to...

Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.

A barrister defends a 14-year-old naval cadet accused of stealing a postal money-order.

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.

The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless, with no motive, no evidence, and no hope of catching this barbaric killer. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler, a novice in the business of murder, an expert in the politics of policing and three-day courses.

Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest police district in the East End. Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, always fearing the Ripper is coming back for another reign of terror.