JoAnne Soper-Cook was born in Old Perlican, Newfoundland and grew up in Hant's Harbour. She published her first story at the age of 8 when her mother, impressed with the quality of a short story she'd written for a school project, sent it in to a local newspaper. Since then she has written novels, novellas, short stories, plays, speeches, radio scripts and some really, really bad poetry. She holds a B.A. (Honors) and an M.A. in English Literature from Memorial University and a B.Ed, also from Memorial. When she isn't writing she teaches Communications and Creative Writing at the College of the North Atlantic.
Rag & Bones #2 in the Inspector Raft Mystery Series Scotland Yard Inspector Philemon Raft arrives on the scene of a deadly fire in Whitechapel, only to find a much more sinister force at work, destroying lives with swift abandon - and a lunatic may help Raft capture the master criminal known only as "The Master."
A killer with a penchant for drilling holes into his victim's heads is loose in Whitechapel, the site of the recent Jack the Ripper murders. Is he merely a copycat, an admirer of the Ripper's methods, or is the Ripper at work again in the dark streets of the notorious East End?
Two men: one white, one black; one in the North and one in the South. Their correspondence reveals secrets that could damn them both but what really happened one hot night in Mississippi?