Review: The Black Midnight - Kathleen Y' Barbo

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The Black Midnight (True Colors)


Review: The Black Midnight - Book #7 True Colors Series - Kathleen Y'Barbo - August 2020

In the mood for some crime-related books, I decided for my first read for 2022 to be The Black Midnight by Kathleen Y'Barbo. A bit of background first is that the True Colors series are books that can be read as standalones and each story features a true crime that happened somewhere in the world mainly US/UK and told in a fictional account. The Black Midnight though is an exception as the book features multiple crimes and is told over two continents. The initial story introduces us to Alice Ann who is a special detective but also the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The year is 1889 and a famous serial killer is stalking the streets of Whitechapel, UK aka Jack the Ripper, and the police are stumped. The Queen knows her granddaughter's skills and wants to on the down-low hire her granddaughter and her old friend to look at the case. Alice Ann takes a trip to Austin, Texas, and is face to face with her old partner and love interest Isaiah Joplin. Back in 1884, Alice took a job undercover as Ann with the detective agency The Pinkertons and was paired with Isaiah. During Austin, Texas was another series of murders similar to later Jack the Ripper - someone was killing and murdering Servant Girls - the media had a few names for him such as The Midnight Assassin and The Servant Girl Annihilator. He wasn't caught but there have been strong rumors that were talked about and portrayed in The Black Midnight, that the murders were connected and done by the same person aka Jack the Ripper. Another couple of murders that was talked about in Austin, Texas was the murders of society wives Eula Phillips and Susan Hancock. These were made to look like the same killer as the Servant Girl Annihilator but as they were society wives - their husbands were charged for the murders - Jimmy aka James Phillips and Moses Hancock. We, however, in all three of these crimes will never know the truth of the killers, but this book The Black Midnight was fun in speculating and helping me learn more about the cases.  The True Colors series are perfect for any true-crime buff and beware - as it can lead you down a rabbit hole of exploration as like myself I hadn’t heard of The Servant Girl Murders / Society wife murders in Austin, Texas.

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How the 'Servant Girl Annihilator' Terrorized 1880s Austin | Mental Floss


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