The Silent Cry: A William Monk Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345514068 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great Potential Firstly solving crimes during Victorian England in the wayward sections of London always interests me. Prominent father and son are beaten in the alley of St Gilesfather dies while Rhys barely lives unable to speak of the cause. Detective and a former detective who suffers from a. "Yet another gripping Victorian mystery" according to Kris Paige. Anne Perry's William Monk series never fails to intrigue, and at the same time, paint a close to reality picture of Victorian England. Both the drawing rooms and the bitterness of the slums. In this one, the reader may think they know the murderer. Multiple times. Gentle reader, . Twists and Turns Denise Fuqua This author never fails to give a gripping account of the underbelly of London. The details of the poverty and scenery and the crimes along with the characters is fascinating and you must continue to read without stopping! The twists and turns take you on a ride that is hard to f
. Mysteries featuring Inspector Thomas Pitt and his upper-class wife, Charlotte, explore the life of the middle class and aristocracy; those that center on William Monk illuminate the back alleys and pauper's hospitals of England's lower classes. Readers of Anne Perry's series of Victorian murder mysteries know that her novels are as much social histories as crime stories. She pens her tales with an acute eye for period detail and a strong moral outrage at the hypocrisies and miseries of life in 19th-century England. As always, Perry's grim landscape of tenements, sweatshops, and boozing kens becomes almost as much a character as the living people who inhabit them, while Monk and Hester's rebellious inte
For a price, a man can procure whatever he wants. Beside him is the barely living body of his son, Rhys. But then the case takes an even more shocking turn.. Deep in London’s dangerous slums, Victorians transact their most secret and shameful business. The police cannot fathom these brutal assaults until shrewd investigator William Monk, aided by nurse-turned-sleuth Hester Latterly, uncovers a connection between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. In sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. But for one such man, the price he pays is his life