A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel

A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry
$17.00
Publication Date: May 26th, 2009
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
ISBN:
9780345513946
Pages:
368

Description

No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.

Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail. With the help of nurse Hester Latterly, a progressive young woman who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the case, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth.

About the Author

Anne Perry was the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. She was also the author of a series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's son, Daniel, as well as the Elena Standish series; a series of five World War I novels; twenty-one holiday novels; and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry died in 2023.

Praise for A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel

“A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable read.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[Perry is] a master of crime fiction.”—Baltimore Sun

“Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes pop.”—New York Times Book Review

“Perry [has two] strengths: memorable characters and an ability to evoke the Victorian era with the finely wrought detail of a miniaturist.”—Wall Street Journal

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