Five teenagers living in different parts of the world enthusiastically solve the mystery of the famous Jack the Ripper. The role-playing game is led by young Amanda. But in the real world, here and now, no less terrible crimes are happening. Someone kidnapped Amanda's mother, the carefree and loving beauty Indiana Jackson, who is trying to heal humanity and its individual representatives. The kidnapper said he would kill her at midnight on Good Friday. The police are aware, but no one knows where Indiana is hidden. It could be anywhere along the San Francisco Bay coast, over an area of eighteen thousand square kilometers. This is the premise of Isabel Allende’s new novel, “The Ripper Game.” The famous writer seems to have seriously decided to work in the noir genre: no magical realism, no shadows of forgotten ancestors, only growing tension, a chain of seemingly completely unmotivated murders and an inexorably ticking clock.