The Boy in the Smoke

Its place in Shades of London

The Boy in the Smoke is book 3 in the Shades of London series. It follows The Madness Underneath. It is followed by The Shadow Cabinet. See the full Shades of London reading order.

American teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London for a boarding-school year just as a killer starts recreating Jack the Ripper's 1888 murders across Whitechapel, down to the exact dates and locations. When Rory becomes the sole witness to one of the attacks, she discovers she can see something no one else can -- because a near-death experience has left her able to perceive ghosts, and the modern Ripper turns out to be one. That gift pulls her into a hidden squad of ghost-hunting police operatives, and the series…