The Yard / Alex Grecian / 422 pages / First Book in a Series

The Yard - Scotland, has an amazing cast of characters - a kidnapped boy, a murdered chimney sweep, a tailor who kills police and stuffs them into trunks to avoid detection, a pair of bearded men-murdering prostitutes who are avenging an attack by Jack the Ripper, Saucy Jack, a detective new to The Yard, and his astute wife, and a doctor/medical examiner who is well ahead of his time.  Dr. Kingsley has been corresponding with a man named Henry Faulds.  He is a Scottish missionary who has spent some time in the Orient who "has been petitioning The Yard of late with a notion he brought back with him" - fingerprinting.  This new notion enables Dr. Kingsley to aid Detectives Day and Hammersmith to solve their cases and re-establish some of the respect lost to the force because of its failure to apprehend Jack.