Tuesday - First Chapter - First Paragraph - The Yard

Each Tuesday, Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea shares the first part of a book that she is reading or thinking about reading.  This week I'm sharing the first few paragraphs of The Yard by Alex Grecian.  This is the first book in his Murder Squad series, set in London of the 1890's - Jack the Ripper's London.  I love this time period.  See what you think:

 

     Nobody noticed when Inspector Christian Little of Scotland Yard disappeared, and nobody was looking for him when he was found.
     A black steamer trunk appeared at Euston Square Station sometime during the night and remained unnoticed until early afternoon of the following day.  The porter discovered it after the one o'clock train had departed, and he opened the trunk when it proved too heavy for him to lift.
     He immediately sent a boy to find the police.



Blurb:

Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month.  Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt.  They have failed their citizens.  But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . .

When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley.  Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad . . . but why?


What are your thoughts?  Would you keep reading?