William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries
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His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. 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...
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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Inspector Monk returns to the scene of another Victorian-era murder mystery when the daughter of an upper-crust family is stabbed in her own home. Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the...
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Defend and betray , William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 3
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A sudden, fearful death , William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 4
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1994
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In Edinburgh, Nurse Hester Latterly, a veteran of the Crimean War, is accused of murder after the rich woman she was escorting in a train dies from an overdose of medicine. It's a setup, of course, and Inspector Monk rushes to the rescue. By the author of The Hyde Park Headsman.
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Fawcett
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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An exiled German prince falls from his horse in Victorian England and his wife is accused of murder. It's a scandal of international proportions and the man expected to sort out the truth from the lies is series sleuth William Monk. First though he must polish his manners. By the author of Cain His Brother.
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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When the respected solicitor Leighton Duff is found bludgeoned to death in one of Victorian London's worst slums, along with his severely injured son, Rhys, investigator William Monk uncovers a link between Duff's murder and a vicious series of attacks on local prostitutes
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A breach of promise , William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 9
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10) The Twisted root
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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William Monk attempts to solve the flight of a young widow from the mansion of her in-laws-to-be only to find her in a London courtroom facing murder charges.
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Slaves of obsession , William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 11
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Funeral in blue , William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 12
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Private detective William Monk is hired by a mysterious client who wants him to discover whether or not her fiancé, a railway firm executive, engages in fraudulent practices, a case that brings Monk face to face with his past.
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Ballantine Books
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c2006
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While on patrol near the Waterloo Bridge, Inspector William Monk and his men witness the deaths of a young couple, but as Monk tries to investigate the deaths, he stumbles upon a conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of government.
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Ballantine Books
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c2009
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When a thirteen-year-old boy is found floating in the river Thames with his throat slit, William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, pursues a child pornographer who runs a sex ring using small boys. Monk's wife Hester and several memorable characters from Dark Assassin return in this richly complex story.
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
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When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 18
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 18
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 18
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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. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little, only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but, described as quiet and kempt, she doesn't appear to be a fallen woman. What...
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 19
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 19
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 19
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"Inspector William Monk searches for proof of his friend's innocence in a controversial and dangerous case, in the nineteenth novel in Anne Perry's acclaimed series. Oliver Rathbone, now a judge, is presiding over a trial for corruption. Proud of his elevation to this position, he is determined to be proper and fair, and, with much skill, convicts a deeply corrupt man. On the back of this success Rathbone is given a controversial new case: that of...
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 20
William Monk novel volume 20
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 20
William Monk Mystery
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"Though Monk is witness to the terrible bombing of an afternoon pleasure boat on the river that leaves 200 people dead, much to his dismay the case is taken from his hands and given over to the commissioner of police. An Egyptian man is quickly caught, tried, and sentenced to death--and then just as swiftly murdered in prison. When evidence surfaces that proves the dead man innocent, the case is handed back to Monk, who must now rely on his own memory...
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 21
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 21
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 21
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"When William Monk's wife, Hester, is kidnapped from the hospital where she volunteers, Monk is desperate to rescue her. But when his investigation leads him to the remote home of the wealthy and enigmatic Bryson Radnor--and to several bodies buried on his grounds--Monk realizes there is far more to Hester's kidnapping than meets the eye. What did Hester learn that made her a danger to Radnor? What are the two doctors Hester was working with at the...
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 22
William Monk novel volume 22
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 22
William Monk Mystery
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"Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges, and the demons that have haunted him since the accident"--...
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Ballantine Books
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2017.
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"In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London's Hungarian community in search of clues but finds his inquiries stymied...
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Local businessman Harry Exeter doesn't want the aid of the Thames River Police in tracking down the men who kidnapped his wife, Kate, only their help in navigating Jacob's Island, a mass of decrepit buildings where he will hand off a large sum of money in exchange for her life. When they arrive at the meeting place, Commander Monk and five of his best men are attacked from all sides, and Monk is left wondering who could have given away their plans--...