Author: Anne Perry Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780345513984 0345513983 |
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With each new novel, Anne Perry adds striking dimensions to the architecture of her fiction, building with inspired imagination a many-layered world of rich and poor, nobility and degradation. "She lifts the lace curtain from Victorian society, " Sharyn McCrumb has said, "to reveal its shocking secrets." Like her last William Monk novel, this one brilliantly evokes England's nineteenth-century legal justice system and builds to a heart-stopping courtroom drama. In a sunny garden, in a pleasant London suburb, a young woman is brutally raped. In a London hospital, another young woman, a talented nurse who had been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets a sudden, fearful death by strangulation. William Monk, no longer a policeman but a private inquiry agent, is engaged to investigate these horrific crimes. The first is readily, if tragically, resolved. The murder of Nurse Prudence Barrymore, however, presents greater difficulties. Even the victim's mother agrees that a rebellious young woman who flouts the traditional roles of marriage and motherhood to work in a filthy hospital must expect a bad end. In the brutal squalor of a Victorian hospital, death in any shape, even murder, can be no surprise. But Monk's intuition tells him that Prudence Barrymore's murder is no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by Hester Latterly, a nurse who knew Prudence on the battlefield, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. He also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil that darkens every level of society, and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past. It all leads Monk, and the reader, to a denouement that ranks with Anne Perry's best, as apacked audience waits breathlessly in the Old Bailey for the outcome of a sensational trial.
This book is part of the "William Monk" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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 | "Execution Dock" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dark Assassin" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Shifting Tide" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Death of a Stranger" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Funeral in Blue" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Slaves of Obsession" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Breach of Promise" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Whited Sepulchres" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Silent Cry" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cain His Brother" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Sins of the Wolf" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Defend and Betray" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Dangerous Mourning" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Sunless Sea" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Blind Justice" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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