The Crime Through Time Book Group will discuss The Chelsea Strangler by Suzanna Gregory (Sphere, $13.99). In the summer heat of the King and anyone with sufficient means has fled plague-ridden London. At Chelsea, a rural backwater by the river, the government has commandeered the theological college to house Dutch prisoners of war and a vicious strangler is stalking the neighborhood. Thomas Chaloner is sent to investigate the murder of the first victim, an inmate of a private sanatorium known as Gorges. He realizes that Gorges has stronger links to the prison than just proximity, and that the influx of strangers offers plenty of camouflage for a killer - a killer who has no compunction about turning on those determined to stop his murderous rampage.
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