Patrick Naville has lived in Arizona for over 40 years, having moved here from New Albany, Ind. He lived and worked in Sedona for many of those years and was employed by two different engineering/surveying firms.
Now a resident of Prescott Valley for the last 15 years, he is a graduate of Purdue University and hold a bachelor’s degree in land surveying.
Naville just released his sixth book, a crime-thriller titled “Ripper.” His first book, “Echo Whispers,” was nominated to the New York Times Best Sellers list. His second book, “Cripple Creek,” made the Amazon Top 100 Best Sellers list for westerns on three different occasions.
“Ripper” begins 130 years ago when an ominous figure roamed the night streets of the Whitechapel District in London and killed at will.
The victims were prostitutes, five of them over a three-month period.
His story is one of the most famous in criminal history. Not so much for what he did, even though the mutilations he performed on the ladies of the evening were gruesome, but more because he was never identified or caught.
The newspapers and authorities dubbed him Jack the Ripper.
Present day Seattle: Christian Summerville is a commercial banker who has everything most people only dream of. He’s young, handsome, well-liked and is financially set.
He’s also a direct descendant of the infamous London serial killer and like his ancestor, has taken the lives of four prostitutes so far.
He has one left to kill. The authorities have dubbed him, “Ripper.”
Jimmy Breen, former FBI agent and also a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, is visiting an old friend in Seattle.
He immediately realizes there’s a connection between the current murders and those committed by the original Jack the Ripper.
They’re happening on the same dates.
If “Ripper” follows the same schedule, another prostitute will be brutally murdered in a few weeks.
Breen sets out to discover the serial killer’s identity in hopes that he can stop the killing, but will he be in time?
All the DNA tests have done is revealed who one of the prostitutes had for a client; not necessarily that person was her killer.
So, who knows with absolute certainty? Whether it is or isn’t doesn’t diminish from the story or the legend of Jack the Ripper.
