April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer's reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac; and failed to find him.
Three years have passed. Reid is drawn back to Whitechapel to investigate a case made by Jackson and Drake that has condemned his old associate Isaac Bloom to the hangman's noose.
With the help of Major Al-Qadir, Drake continues to investigate the mysterious murder of a young Indian-born lawyer. However things get tricky for Drake and his men when it becomes clear that their investigation is stepping on Special Branch's toes.
It is Reid's first day back at H Division and the police force he once commanded is now under Inspector Drake's authority. Despite his initial anxiety, it soon becomes clear that Reid's investigative instinct is as sharp as ever.
One month has passed since Inspector Reid returned to H Division. Drake and Reid are once more in harmony but it's now Jackson's turn to feel the pressure as a murder has links to a man who aided Long Susan's escape from Newgate.
Just as it seems that Reid and Drake have found their working dynamic once more, they are forced to engage with a difficult murder case that threatens to open old wounds.
When a young man close to Drake's heart is discovered murdered, it exacerbates the considerable rift that has developed between Reid and Drake, and threatens to throw H Division as a whole into turmoil.
