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A William Monk Novel #2
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Davina Porter
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Anne Perry
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No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family—until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.
Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see
Monk fail. With the help of nurse Hester Latterly, a progressive young woman who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the case, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth.
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England, 1941. The tranquil village of Crofter’s Green seems like a haven from the chaos of wartime. But when a local air raid warden is found dead in the village churchyard, five villagers--some getting on in years and none of them policemen--decide they need to uncover the truth.
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Excellent and Intriguing!
- De Nicole en 04-15-25
De: Anna Elliott, y otros
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No Graves as Yet
- World War I, Book 1
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished.
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Thought would get out of it but I stayed it was great and characters
- De GOR en 04-26-25
De: Anne Perry
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Bibliomysteries Volume 1
- De: Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, y otros
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.
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Riddle me this...
- De yenalsekim en 02-14-21
De: Jeffery Deaver, y otros
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth, Suehyla El Attar
- Duración: 20 h y 55 m
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When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.
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Lot of duds, some gems
- De Regina en 11-09-13
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Murder on Black Swan Lane
- De: Andrea Penrose
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. He does not suffer fools gladly. So when pompous, pious Reverend Josiah Holworthy publicly condemns him for debauchery, Wrexford unsheathes his rapier-sharp wit and strikes back. As their war of words escalates, London's most popular satirical cartoonist, A. J. Quill, skewers them both.
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Tedious
- De Kathi en 10-02-17
De: Andrea Penrose
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What Angels Fear
- Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 1
- De: C. S. Harris
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.
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An Addictive Series
- De Bibliophile1963 en 10-17-16
De: C. S. Harris
Growth in Characters
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Alas, I just pretend he is someone else!
I am confused by Runcorn’s character
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Kept me hooked
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Great story and narration
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Surprising finish!
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Let me explain...
The narration is excellent. Davina Porter is a gem.
The setting is quite good. From eel pies and onion soup, to the daily routines of servants, to the ineptitudes of doctors and their expectations of nurses, to the rituals which were involved in every kind of social interaction, Victorian London, and the lives of its inhabitants, are fleshed out in remarkable detail.
Many of the characters are good, too. Hester Latterly is a stand out: brash, intelligent, opinionated, sensitive, compassionate, proactive.
And the basic plot is engrossing: a women dead, carved up by an intruder in the night, only it wasn't an intruder but someone in the house who did it -- a very respectable house filled with both respectable people, and servants. The conflict this creates, and the ways the conflict plays out, is fascinating to observe...mostly.
The problem is that the novel plods. Not in a satisfying, slow, luxurious way. In a tedious way. Most of the action consists of repetitive conversations, leading to interrogations that are uninformative, leading back to conversations that are usually seething underneath with barely suppressed contempt or indignation, leading to more interrogations with the same people as before, with almost nothing new coming to light, and so on, and so on. This is actually fine for a while as it builds tension. But I found myself skipping a bit at the end, trying to get to some good parts.
Part of what's frustrating is that the main character (who is not Hester, sadly) is so impotent throughout. His hands are tied by the situation, and they never become untied, so that by the end of the story he has barely done anything to accomplish its resolution. This might be accurate for the time and situation, but it's usually not what you want in the protagonist of a detective novel.
What's more, there was a line of inquiry I was almost screaming for them to pursue, which was completely ignored until the last few pages. In my mind, in a murder mystery, obscuring the obvious by simply ignoring it is a cardinal sin.
In conclusion: I did enjoy the novel, but I find it difficult to recommend. It's an odd thing to admit at the end of a 4 star review, but there you have it.
Enjoyable, but frustrating
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Enjoyed every minute of it.
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Long but worth every minute
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Hester and Monk are a good team
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As good as it gets
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