The Doll Maker

The Scott Carson Saga, Book 2

De: Robert Crawford

Narrado por: Marnie L Sher

Jack the Ripper was just the beginning.

In 1889 New York, 22 year-old Scott Carson retreats to his parents’ basement on 69th Street. Unwilling to venture back into the world, the reclusive engineering genius is still licking his wounds after winning his final battle with Jack the Ripper and trying to reassemble his shattered psyche. Then his friend Jacob Riis, desperate to get him back into the land of the living, shows him a photograph given to him by a detective that seems to be of a dead girl sitting on the lap of an adult hidden by a shroud.

Carson quickly realizes this person who’d had delivered the photo to NYPD HQ on Mulberry Street may be a more advanced photographer than him and his interest is piqued. Riis introduces him to this detective, Angelo Delmonico (of the famous restauranteur family) and he finds the scientific-minded detective and he are of a similar mind regarding this new killer. Together with teenager Kelley McCarthy, a pioneering female urban explorer "who goes where even the rats don’t go", the trio chase an ingenious and elusive serial killer who is murdering little girls and turning them into human dolls.

©2021 Robert Crawford (P)2023 Robert Crawford

fun listen with delightful characters

It's a fun romp of historical fiction. Crawford gives you entertaining takes on the names you recognize and creates delightful characters for the names you don't. Yes, the story is a bit of a mystery, but the book is 100% the characters.

And speaking of the characters. Marnie Sher gives them life in a way that matches the writing perfectly and gives all the characters a unique voice. She's makes it fun listen cover to cover!

Historical Mystery Thriller at its best.

Robert Crawford's second book in the Scott Carson saga is as riveting as the first: Tatterdemalion. Young girls are prey to a deranged killer in the 1800's as Crawford reimagines life at that time; it is believable and is eerily accurate. Unpredictability, the conclusion of this story has an ending you won't see coming. Well done, Mr. Crawford.

Additionally, Marnie Sher narrates impressively. She captures the reader by creating unique voices for each character so they are easily identifiable and she is a star in the audio realm.