William Monk (11 books in series)
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...