The Silent Cry: A William Monk Novel
Deep in London’s dangerous slums, Victorians transact their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man can procure whatever he wants. But for one such man, the price he pays is his life. In sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death....
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Deep in London’s dangerous slums, Victorians transact their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man can procure whatever he wants. But for one such man, the price he pays is his life. In sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him is the barely living body of his son, Rhys. 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. But then the case takes an even more shocking turn.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345514066 (0345514068)
ASIN: 345514068
Publish date: September 28th 2010
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: William Monk (#8)
Eighth in the William Monk series by Anne Perry, and I have to say, it's a good one. Starting in January 1860, two men are found in St. Giles, one of London's most notorious slums,. One is Leighton Duff, a respected business man, and the other is Rhys, his son. Both have been very badly beaten, and ...
Still really enjoying Anne Perry's books! This one centers on the intersection of a case being worked by Evan and Hester (a man murdered and his son brutally injured) and one being worked by Monk (of a series of increasingly brutal assaults on factory women taking occasional extra work as prostitute...
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