England, 1888. Lord Palm and Police Commissioner Burrows are deeply worried. Jack the Ripper has stopped killing the working class and has begun to target the nobility. They must finally try and catch the killer before he strikes at the summit of society--Queen Victoria herself. In desperation, they turn to Lady Jane Roseblood, incarcerated at the Dickens' Asylum for her scandalous sexual behaviour. Despite her antipathy for the establishment, Jane agrees to help and to track down the Ripper. Jane investigates the suspects, though she does tend to get sidetracked by having a good time with anyone she takes a fancy to--Lords, Ladies, stable boys, maids, ghosts…much to the horror of Lord Palm, who wants the case solved and Jane back in the asylum as soon as possible. Can Jane find the Ripper before he kills again? Will the strong, self-willed Jane, sexually polymorphous and with wide-ranging tastes and desires, be a match for the predatory Ripper, who uses sex as a tool for domination and power? And can she out-manoeuvre the disapproving Lord Palm, who wants Jane and all her kind swept under the carpet of Victorian respectability? Ripping Times: a dark comedy novel of sex, death, sex, investigation, sex and the freedom to be yourself. And sex.