Winner of the 2018 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin GOLD for Historic Fiction! Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper is an excellent first novel...Fanny, a prominent lawyer's daughter, is so relentless in her attempt...that the more she digs, the deeper she puts herself in danger. Her list of suspects is short, and the reader, like Fanny, has plenty of reasons to suspect any one of them. And that's half the fun of reading this novel: will the one you picked out early in the story be the right one? - Reader's Favorite review. Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade. Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper. Fanny quickly enlists the help of her well-connected employers - Principal Sylvia Giddings and her sister Dr. Olive - and together the women forge through saloons, cemeteries, slums, and houses of prostitution. Fanny's good intentions quickly infuriate her longtime beau Lawrence Decatur, while her reckless persistence confounds the talented police detective Daniel Crenshaw. Reluctantly, Lawrence and Daniel also lend their talents to Fanny's investigation. As the murderer sets a date for his next heinous crime, can Fanny Newcomb and her crew stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again?