True Crime Book Club - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper In-Person
Do you stay up all night watching Dateline? Can't get enough of true crime podcasts? Then you'll love chatting with other true crime fanatics at our book club! We'll discuss The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold. Copies of the book will be available at the Northwest Branch Information Desk. Registration is required. Note that some of the books we read may contain graphic descriptions of violence and/or crime scenes.
Book description from Goodreads:
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.
Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.
In this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally gives these women back their stories.
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 29, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Northwest Community Room
- Branch:
- Northwest Branch
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion