a dangerous mourning

However it also creates an excellent atmosphere to showcase the personalities, back-stabbing and jockeying for status and position reflective of that time.

But interesting characters and showing the way of life in England for the upper classes in the mid 1800's. But with the intelligent help of Hester Latterly, he begins to approach the astonishing solution, step by dangerous step.

Honestly, each book is better than the previous book! Rather, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2020, i found it hard to stop reading to get my meals. I did read one about ten years ago and enjoyed it again.

Buy A Dangerous Mourning (William Monk Mystery, Book 2): Murder and intrigue stalk the pages of this gripping mystery New Ed by Perry, Anne (ISBN: 9780747245261) from Amazon's Book Store. I will not spoil anyone's enjoyment of the book by saying what the twist is. Love this series, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2018. Inspector William Monk is ordered to find her killer without delay - and in a manner that will give least pain to her family. --.

Suspicion now falls on the numerous servants and the resident family--Araminta, a second daughter and her husband Myles; Sir Basil's wife Lady Beatrice; his widowed sister Fanella; son Cyprian, daughter-in-law Romola, and Lady Beatrice's brother Septimus. Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2018. That is exactly what Anne Perry did in the first book of this series and that is what really attracted my attention to the books. She gave puzzle pieces, clues, to solve the unknown picture. To be fair, Hester Latterly and a mostly new character, Oliver Rathbone, are both interesting, sympathetic characters, and I'm excited to see more of them.

This series of books are fantastic. If you didn't read the first book first, you will find out 'whodunit' pretty early on in the second, which kind of surprised me. He saw nothing, and continued rather more waspishly. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues?

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What a constant humiliation, like a burning blister on the heel which hurt with every step.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dangerous Mourning.
(I did not start with the first book; I read several later books in the series by Perry when I first discovered her. I did read one about ten years ago and enjoyed it again.

Verified Purchase. While I did not like book #2 in the William Monk series as much as I liked book #1, you can count me in for book # 3. The "uptightedness" of the time back then gets hard to take some time and makes for some plodding reading in parts. I greatly enjoyed it.

Repetitive emphasis on women's sorry lot in Victorian England is a minor irritant in what is nevertheless a richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story.
DNF at 58%.

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. '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. Monk is investigating the bedroom stabbing-death of Octavia Haslett, who's the daughter of rich, powerful Sir Basil Moidore and whose dearly loved husband was killed in battle in the Crimea two years ago. “Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people because your acceptance, perhaps even your financial survival, depended upon it. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Let me just say, I love all of the Anne Perry Monk series. A dangerous mourning by Anne Perry, unknown edition, Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 823/.914 Library of Congress PR6066.E693 D36 1991 I read the spoilers and would not have been happy with that ending. All those gritted teeth and glares became tiresome about halfway through the book. He didn’t so I am not likely to read more in this series. Monk still doesn’t know who he is, his boss still hates him, his partner’s character is not developed at all. I like the series by Anne Perry.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2017, A well written book. A well written mystery with an intriguing main character. We LOVE to read. They all seem to be about 12 to 13 chapters long; the beginning is usually about Monk and nurse Hester Latterly working on a new cas.

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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Mystery is well thought out and complicated enough to keep me guessing. Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020. "
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From the Paperback edition. There are further revelations regarding Monk's back story as well. His professional developments we. Start by marking “A Dangerous Mourning (William Monk, #2)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. They are romance, mystery, suspense fiction. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. This is the second book in the William Monk series by Anne Perry. Intelligent plotting and gripping end. There must be hundreds - thousands - of petty accommodations, suppressions of your own beliefs and opinions because they would not be what someone else wished to hear. This book - A Dangerous Mourning is even better that the first book Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry. The narrator is very good but she can’t save this slow moving and boring story.

Monk is able to prove that there was no outside intruder.

The limitations police investigators have to work within: being considered low class and not worthy of the gentry's time, a general animosity of the press and public towards them as they investigate the rich and famous and the lack of forensics : no fingerprinting, no blood spatter analysis, no autops.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2017. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Sir Basil Moidore.” He said the name as though it were long familiar to him, and watched Monk’s face to see if he registered ignorance.

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