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Search - A Dangerous Mourning (William Monk)
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Book Description:
Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth....
"A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story."
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"A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story."
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Leanne C. from AUSTIN, TX wrote on 2/7/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Don't read this book unless you have read the previous Monk novel, 'Face of a Stranger'. It's a really good look into the European society of the 1800's. And Perry is an excellent writer!!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Second book in the series, the Inspector and investigator William Monk, assisted by Hester Lattery, endevour to solve the mystery of Octavia Haslett's death. Read the books in this order:
The Face of a Stranger
A Dangerous Mourning
Defend and Betray
A Sudden, Fearful Death
The Sins of the Wolf
Cain His Brother
Weighed in the Balance
The silent Cry
A Breach of Promise
The Twisted root
Slaves of Obsession
Funeral in Blue
Death of a Stranger
The Shifting Tide
The Dark Assassin
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I love her William Monk novels. This one had a surprising twist to the ending. Good read.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I loved this book from the first page. I couldn't put it down.
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Ann P. from CLIFTON SPGS, NY wrote on 4/8/2006...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. (from back cover)
Murder in an aristocratic London household pits Inspector William Monk against the Victorian sense of propriety, a bootlicking superior officer and a family's fierce desire to protect its reputation.