The Minotaur's Children: a tale of family secrets and public outrages - Paperback

by Alan McKee (Author)

When Julia Winstanely, daughter of a prominent west end family starts to work with W.T. Stead, muck raking editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, she finds herself and her family involved with some of the worst and most powerful people in Victorian London, people who kidnap and sell young girls to brothels on the continent. As Julia and her suffragette sister, Serafina, battle for legal means to find missing girls, the crimes of Jack the Ripper begin. Julia's handsome cousin, Miles, tries, with Julia's help to stalk the monster through the back streets of Whitechapel. With the aid of a clairvoyant photographer they discover, to their horror, that the answer to the Ripper murders and the trade in young girls lies in their own family's past. The true facts of the trade in children and the involvement of public officials will amaze readers who thought Victorian London was a tame place.

Author Biography

Historical novelist with three titles. Before writing my first novel, I was a professional writer for 30 years, writing film, advertising, and successful editorial product as well as promotions. Currently creating and publishing ebooks for the ipad. For fifteen years I was the primary creative source (copy and design) for Nightingale-Conant Corporation, the largest self-improvement audio publisher in the world