A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel: 2 - Brossura

Perry, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0345513940 ISBN 13: 9780345513946

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Blind Justice and A Sunless Sea, the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Death on Blackheath and Midnight at Marble Arch. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as eleven holiday novels, most recently A New York Christmas, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland and Los Angeles.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0345513940
• ISBN 13: 9780345513946
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368