Reviews

The Prostitute's Price is a stunning book; richly imagined and beautifully written in a pared-down, modest, unpretentious style. It is a story about love and friendship and desolation and grief, charged throughout with unease and a sense of the fragility of life. Reading Alan's work I always find myself seeking out those small glimpses of light that leaven the sudden violence and suffering ‒ the sizzle of German sausages in a Spitalfields market, the blast of chocolate and mustard from the Taylor Brothers' cocoa factory, a children's toy village where the ghosts of prostitutes walk the streets in safety.I regard the five books that make up this series as unarguably one of the high points in Ripper fiction over the past 130 years--Ripperologist magazine