In the 1890's, Pete Donahue was the best detective west of the Mississippi. A proclivity for liquor and prostitutes, however, proved to be the downfall of the great sleuth of the west and destroyed his illustrious career. But when a serial killer begins to ravish Denver's East Side, it's up to Donaghue, alongside a crackpot psychoanalyst, to come out of exile and hunt the killer down. A journalist with a vendetta, a corrupt police force, and Donaghue's disturbing connections to the victims are just some of the stumbling blocks standing between Donaghue and his redemption. Hunting the East Side Ripper, inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders that terrorized the Whitechapel district of London in the late 1880's, is not only a fast-paced, plot-twisted novel, but also a candid depiction of criminal investigation, corrupt journalism, and the rampant exploration of the human psyche characteristic of the early 20th century.
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