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review 1: this is the first Charlotte & Thomas Pitt book that I have read; it's obvious from the text that they have had many adventures together (#29! wow), and some of them sound quite interesting. I liked the characters and their relationships, but a couple of things about the writing w...
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review 1: Monk is my favorite Anne Perry character series, and this one was not a disappointment. It's like going to visit old friends. Monk and his side kick Orme are paddling on the river and hear a woman screaming on the dock.. they find a body badly mutilated and it takes them a whi...
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review 1: Monk and Orme are on their patrol boat when they witness a horrific explosion: a pleasure boat has been blown sky high. As the commander of the Thames River Police, Monk expects to be at the forefront of the investigation, but it is taken out of his hands and given to the Metrop...
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review 1: Twenty year old Lieutenant Victor Narraway is posted to Cawnpore, India, a few months after a horrible massacre of the so-called Indian Mutiny. He is assigned to defend John Tallis, a medical orderly accused of helping a prisoner escape with information that enabled a deadly amb...
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review 1: Anne Perry seems to be writing from an outline these days. I have enjoyed both the, "Charlotte and Thomas Pit" mystery series as well as the "William Monk" mystery series and after 20+ books I can now read the first chapter to find out who was murdered and the last chapter to fi...
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review 1: This book was twice as long as it could have been and by the time I finished I found it tedious. The characters keep agonizing over unanswered questions which are asked over and over again. I enjoyed the first few books of the Monk series by Anne Perry; however I feel that they t...
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review 1: This William Monk novel was an audio book. It started with the brutal death of a poor widow and evolved into a drama about the use of opium in Victorian England to solve multiple health problems from babies' teething pain to the pain of crushed limbs and about the efforts to con...
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review 1: I continue to enjoy Anne Perry's books. This is one of the latest in the Monk series and involves the trade of opium in 1860s England. I really enjoyed the historical aspects of the book and the sociological reflections as well. Perry effectively wove the mystery in with the c...
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review 1: This isa Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery set in Victorian London, soon after Thomas has been promoted to Chief of Special Branch. Up until now his job has been uneventful. Now rumors abound about an assassination attempt of a minor Austrian royal who is coming to London to visi...
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review 1: What the heck is this? Can you guess i wasn't impressed? I get it, it's a novelette and the "mystery" needs to be wrapped up in a hundred odd pages but sheesh, I feel like there was hardly any effort put into this at all. It was transparent and pretty obvious early on what was go...
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review 1: This is the first Ann Perry book I have read. I like Agatha Christie mysteries because she gives you the information you need to solve the mystery. Very few writers can do this without giving away the ending. Ann Perry didn't give the information to solve this until the last few ...
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review 1: Someone escapes from 19th century British jail in India and wrecks havoc on a group of soldiers. Poor young Lt. Narraway is assigned to defend a British soldier Corp. Tallis who is accused of aiding the escape and getaway!!!I did enjoy the book and am appreciating Anne Perry's Ch...
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review 1: I thoroughly enjoyed this book by Anne Perry another entry into the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. The book mixed issues surrounding history of the British empire in the 1890s, how women were treated in that time frame and how utterly they were dependent on being married and ...
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review 1: I was really excited to see that Anne Perry had written a novel set in Constantinople c. 1278-80. I enjoyed learning about the history of this city and getting a different perspective on the crusades. (Just like today, one issue is what horror is inflicted on innocent people in...
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review 1: This goes under my e-book commute section, which means I just picked something off the shelf at the library without knowing anything about it. I probably should have read a different one in the Monk series (though I had no way of knowing where it was in the series thanks to book ...
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review 1: Un tome un peu planplan dans lequel il ne se passe pas grand chose... L'intrigue est entièrement centrée sur les problèmes d'Oliver Rathbone qui a utilisé les photos pédophiles de son beau-père et s'est fait bêtement coincé pour un problème de droit.... J'aime bien Oliver et j'au...
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review 1: What a lovley Christmas read, this is number 11 in a series of Christmas novellas by the same author. You don't have to have read the previous books, but it does mention things that happened in previous books.Wonderful writing ill definitely be reading the other novellas, a great...
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review 1: I listened to this story in CD the first Anne Perry story I've listened to. It was good but I missed reading! Ususally Emily helps her sister and Thomas Pitt to solve crimes, this time Emily is on her on "an all but forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. A tragic secret ...
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review 1: I enjoyed this book a lot. I like Anne Perry's sleuths because they are so moral, but not stodgy. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt have a strong healthy marriage and are good parents. They deal with the horrible things with honor and integrity. Man, it's so rare these days to read a boo...
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review 1: Despite my qualms about Anne Perry, I borrowed this from the library after reading a review in the New York Times. I must admit, I was very entertained but it is completely unrealistic when each and every one of the "good" main characters have enlightened, modern 21st century val...
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review 1: Plenty of intrigue, murder, plots and counterplots, backstabbing (literally), political unrest, and religious upheaval wrapped in a mystery involving a woman physician posing as a eunuch who is trying to clear her twin brother's name and get him back from exile in Sinai. Great ch...
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review 1: I had really hoped to like this book, unfortunately it feel far short of its promise of complex Byzantine intrigue and exciting historical drama. Outside the narrative, which is terrible and contrived, the book is poorly written with mind numbing repetition and obvious metaphors ...
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review 1: I feel like I was really late to this party! Anne Perry has written many books featuring William Monk, but this is the first one I've read. The story builds on a series of events explored in a previous book. Mr. Monk is commander of the River Police in London during the Victor...
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review 1: This was a fun cozy Christmas book to read. Short and sweet and touching. A story of an unlikely friendship formed between two young girls who might've never met if it weren't for a mysterious death and a lost but beloved donkey. The story is well written makes you feel like y...
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review 1: Anne Perry is one of my favorite mystery writers and the William Monk series is my favorite. This is the most recent one and I certainly hope there will be more. What will happen to Rathbone? There has to be more. She has such a good understanding of this period in English histor...
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review 1: 3 1/2 stars -I quite enjoyed this little mystery! It was a bit on the brief side, and would have benefited from being a bit longer and having a bit more depth. But I enjoyed the main character and the mystery itself was entertaining. I'd like to know what happens after the book...
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review 1: A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry is book 6 of the Christmas mystery novel series, set in Victorian England. While the majority of the series is set in London, in this book Charlotte Pitt’s sister Emily Radley travels to the rugged west Ireland coastal town of Connemara. Charlotte ...
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review 1: I liked this book but it will not put you in the holiday spirit. Most of the books in this series involve Charlotte Pitt who aids her policeman husband insolving crimes. In this story Charlotte is down for the count with bronchitis and can not respond to the request she receives ...
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review 1: This was an unusual, but very enjoyable Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery!When Thomas is unexpectedly obliged to follow a suspect to France, he doesn't even have time to notify Charlotte, but sends a message to Narraway advising him where Pitt and another officer are going.Shortl...
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review 1: My Second Anne Perry novel - and I can spot the formula - but was still diverting reading. I can see I'll need to space this series out or it will spoil. I was somewhat annoyed with the courtroom drama which ignored describing the crucial problems with the evidence that the case ...
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review 1: This book read like Sparknotes on Bram Stoker's Dracula. The dialogue was almost solely about the play these amateur actors were planning on performing the day after Christmas. There was a murder nearing the end of the book, but even that was boring. This is not a Christmas story...
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review 1: I liked the story and Minnie and Balthasar but it was not the best of Anne Perry. The story was maybe too low-key and the time I read it was most probabl wrong (should've read it the week of Christmas or around that time).Minnie is such a sweet girl that I understand why Gracie c...
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review 1: Love, love, love Anne Perry! One of my favorite authors! Excellent detail woven like a fine tapestry. Compelling mysteries that keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat. Images pop into my head like I'm watching a movie. In fact, I'm wondering why these haven't been ma...
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review 1: Henry Rathbone is a minor character in the William and Hester Monk series, but in this Christmas story he takes (almost) center stage, along with Squeaky Robinson and the mysterious Dr. Crow. Together the three of them seek the prodigal son of one of Henry's friends, James Wentw...
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review 1: I have become a big fan of Anne Perry's Christmas stories. This is definitely not your typical Christmas story. It takes the reader into the underworld of Dickensian London and makes Oliver Twist look positively lighthearted. When just before Christmas a friend asks Henry Rathbon...