Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they’ve been waiting for-the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was.įor the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace-especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds.
Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry.
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