A Sunless Sea (William Monk Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423372611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 593 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Apparently, the doctor was devastated when his extensive report on the evils of opium use was rejected by the government. The eighteenth Monk novel is a brilliant Victorian police procedural in which well-realized characters and settings are fascinating in themselves. The investigation concludes in a hold-your-breath trial, starring Monk’s old friend, Sir Oliver Rathbone. --Connie Fletcher . Monk’s reach into this mystery is extended by his wife, Hester, a nurse who runs a women’s clinic and who has contacts among both doctors and street people. And, as in all her Monk novels, Perry exhumes and exhibits yet another of the Victorian era’s social evils. Opium is the focus of Perry’s latest
. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as nine holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Homecoming, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland. Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Acceptable
Anne Perry’s spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled listeners for a generation. But unless they can work a miracle, a monumental evil will go unpunished and an innocent person will hang. The victim’s name is Zenia Gadney. Anne Perry has never worn her literary colors with greater distinction than in A Sunless Sea, a heart-pounding novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to make the hardest decision of his life.. The Plain Dealer calls Monk “a marvelously dark, brooding creation” and, true to form, this Perry masterpiece is as deceptively deep and twisty as the Thames. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monk’s investigation? While the public cries out for blood, Monk, his spirited wife, Hester, and their brilliant barrister friend, Oliver Rathbone, search for answers. She must be a prostitute, but described as quiet and kempt she doesn’t appear to be a fallen woman. As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. From dank waterfr
A Perfect Title for a Great Book I truly appreciate the title of this book for several reasons. First, it comes from Kublai Khan, a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was a notorious opium eater and according to legend wrote this upon awakening from an opium dream. "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." Second, one could visualize opium addicts as drown. A Sunless Sea---Imagery at it's best! Anne Perry masterfully links the name of this book, A Sunless Sea, with the poem Kubla Kahn written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 as she did with The Sins of the Wolf and Dante's Inferno. Coleridge was a known opium user in England when the drug was totally unregulated which leads us to the main focus of this book.As opium addiction is described by the author, the image of a sunless sea is a place where there is no light--only darkness, . Another great novel lady lily jeep Anne Perry does it again with a great novel There is generally no or very little violence in her novels, but in this one the body of a woman is found who has been horribly mutilated. It is found on a dock in Monks territory, as he is with the river police in a part of London. His investigation takes him to a possible connection of a suicide two months earlier of a prominent doctor researching and writing a report for the government on the dan