With the trial only days away, they feverishly work to unravel the dark heart of the mystery. Although his wife confesses to the murder, Monk and Hester suspect deceit. But when nurse Hester Latterly offers her assistance, together they grope warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the aristocrat’s demise.Īfter a brilliant military career, General Thaddeus Carlyon meets his death not on the battlefield but at a London dinner party.
With his memory erased after a terrible accident, Monk intends on hiding his condition and starting a new life by tackling a grisly murder case in which each new revelation leads him to the answers he seeks-but dreads to find.Ĭalled upon to investigate the brutal murder of a blue-blooded young widow, Monk is plagued by both his lingering amnesia and an inept supervisor. His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective.
Anne Perry’s acclaimed William Monk novels have captivated readers with their rich texture and masterly suspense, leading The New York Times Book Review to exclaim, “Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil, and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes pop.” Now, the first five books in the spellbinding series are collected in this addictive eBook
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