Anne perry in Mystery & Crime Books

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Nurse Hester Latterly's simple job as a companion for elderly Mrs. Mary Farraline takes a grave turn when the woman dies during the night of an overdose. The notorious case presents detective William Monk with a daunting task--find a calculating killer amongst the prominent and coolly unassailable Farraline clan, before Hester is sent to the gallows.

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"Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date."-- KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else....A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery Guild

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A series of grisly murders of Members of Parliament puts Inspector Thomas Pitt and his suffragette wife Charlotte at cross-purposes. He believes the main suspect is guilty, and she wants to prove the same suspect--a distraught suffragette with a painful grudge against one of the victims--innocent!

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From the author of Traitors Gate and Pentecost Alley comes a new novel starring William Monk. In his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, Angus Stonefield has been a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it's possible Caleb has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself in his shoes--and inches treacherously toward the truth.

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The 12th mystery in the beloved Inspector and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series, now a hardcover success. When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office.

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When a brilliant young architect suddenly ends his engagement to a socially prominent woman, her outraged parents file a sensational breach of promise suit. But the case comes to a tragic halt when a murderer strikes. Sleuth William Monk investigates. A Mystery Guild selection.

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When two beautiful women are found strangled in the studio of a famous London artist, including the wife of Viennese TmigrT Dr. Kristian Beck, who is accused of the killing, William Monk, his wife Hester, and their close friend, Lady Callandra Daviot, who is in love with the accused, set out to clear their friend's name.

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When a clairvoyant is found brutally murdered following a late-night sTance, Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte find themselves caught in the middle of a bitter political battle over one crucial London seat in Parliament when they discover that the wife of the liberal candidate had been a participant in the fatal sTance.