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With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of historys most heartbreaking conflictthe war that was meant to end all warsAnne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English familybrothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Germans but the bitter cold and the appalling casualties at Ypres. Scarcely less at risk, Matthew, an officer in Englands Secret Intelligence Service, fights the war covertly from London. Only Hannah, living with her children in the family home in tranquil Cambridgeshire, seems safe. Appearances, however, are deceiving. By the time Joseph returns home to Cambridgeshire, rumors of spies and traitors are rampant. And when the savagely brutalized body of a weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over the townalong with the shadow of the obsessed ideologue who murdered the Reavleys parents on the eve of the war. Once again, this icy, anonymous powerbroker, the Peacemaker, is plotting to kill. Perrys kaleidoscopic new novel illuminates an entire world, from the hell of the trenches to the London nightclub where a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade; from the sequestered laboratory where a weapon that can end the war is being perfected to the matchless glory of the English countryside in spring. Steeped in history and radiant with truth, Angels in the Gloom is a masterpiece that warms the heart even as it chills the blood.

El príncipe Friedrich, que vive exiliado en Londres desde que contrajo matrimonio con Gisela, muere por accidente, pero la condesa Zorah Rostova defiende que en realdiad ha sido envenenado por su esposa. Gisela se querella contra Rostova, y esta acude entonces a un reputado abogado Oliver Rathbone, que encarga la investigacion del caso al detective Monk. Una enfermera perspicaz, Hester, colaborara en la busqueda de pruebas.

In Perry's 11th novel featuring Victorian London private investigator William Monk, two beautiful women are found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of a cherished colleague of nurse Hester Monk. When a Viennese migr becomes the prime suspect, Hester and Monk seek evidence to save him from the hangman.

Hester Latterly, enfermera de profesión, ha encontrado un nuevo trabajo de aparente sencillez: acompañar a una anciana y amable señora durante una visita a Londres. El asunto se complica cuando la mujer muere durante la noche y se le debe practicar una autopsia para averiguar las causas del fallecimiento. La paciente ha sido envenenada y ¿quién si no Herter puede haber sido el autor del delito?

Killian Melville, un joven y brillante arquitecto, va a ser juzgado por romper su compromiso con Zillah Lambert, hija de su patrón. Para su defensa, contacta con el prestigioso abogado Sin Oliver Rathbone quien, al ver que Melville no aporta razones que justifiquen su comportamiento, inicia una investigación con su colaborador, William Monk. Éste deberá indagar en un inidente familiar ocurido dos décadas atrás.

Víctima de un accidente en el que su cochero murió y él resultó malherido, William Monk consigue recuperar la salud, pero no los recuerdos del pasado que la amnesia ha borrado de su mente. Así que cuando se reincorpora al cuerpo de policía y le encargan que investigue el brutal asesinato de Joscelin Grey, se lanza en busca de dos claves: una que ilumine este delicado caso y otra que le ayude a despertar su propia memoria.

M. Gardiner, la prometida de un rico heredero, es la principal sospechosa del asesinato del conductor del carromato en que viajaba. Resulta difícil entender por qué una joven con un brillante futuro cometería un acto similar. El enigma desembocará en los tribunales, donde el abogado O. Rathbone, asesorado por W. Monk y su esposa Hester, deberá invertir toda su sagacidad para defender a una mujer que está dispuesta a aceptar la horca antes que desvelar un secreto del pasado.

El Maude Idrisfondea en el Támesis cargado con todo tipo de materias preciadas, como ébano y marfil, procedentes de África. Esa misma tarde, el capitán Clement Louvain deja a cargo de unos marineros armados la vigilancia del barco y su carga, pero, al día siguiente, se encuentra con que el marfil ha sido robado y uno de los marineros, asesinado. Louvain encargará a William Monk la investigación del caso.

As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are running a lucrative protection racket, and clues suggest that Inspector Wetron of Bow Street is the mastermind. As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to whip up fears of more attacks - and to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. This would make him the most powerful man in the country.

The sequel to the bestselling Seven Dials is another riveting novel in which Ann Perry again proves herself "a master of crime fiction" (Baltimore Sun ).

Bestseller Perry's latest novel (after 2001's Funeral in Blue) to feature mid-Victorians William Monk and his wife, Hester, offers an ingenious and baffling plot, compelling characters, both major and minor, plus plenty of courtroom drama, but is something of a diamond in the rough. In London's East End, Hester, a former nurse with Florence Nightingale, has established a shelter for prostitutes where the ill and injured can be treated. One night, a well-known railway magnate is found dead in a nearby brothel, and the police presence in the area grinds the illicit business of the pimps and prostitutes to a halt. William, meanwhile, has undertaken a private investigation into possible fraud. His client, the fiancee of a young executive for the same railway as the murder victim, fears her betrothed may be implicated in the fraud scheme. As William recognizes parallels with the past, memories that he lost in an accident seven years earlier start to haunt him. Unfortunately, the book suffers from hasty execution, as reflected in repetitious phrasing, pronouns with unclear antecedents and confusing narrative transitions between Hester and William and between William in the present and William before his amnesia. The result is a challenging read, though established fans will likely forgive the author her lapses because she tells such a wonderful story.

Cambridge, Inglaterra, semanas previas al estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Joseph Reavley recibe la visita inesperada de su hermano Matthew, quien le anuncia la fatídica muerte de sus padres en un accidente. A su dolor se suma el desasosiego debido a que, la noche anterior, Joseph había revelado a su hijo que estaba en posesión de un documento que iba a cambiar la historia de Inglaterra.

Commissioned to find the precious cargo of ivory stolen by river thieves from the hold of Clement Louvain's ocean-going schooner, private enquiry agent William Monk is intrigued by his new surroundings. The waterfront of the River Thames is a world unto itself, but without the help of the famed River Police, Monk hardly stands a chance of retrieving the ivory or tracking down the murderous men who killed an innocent crew member while robbing Louvain's ship. Not so coincidentally, Monk's wife Hester, who operates a shelter for sick and injured women of the streets, discovers that a woman with a mysterious connection to Louvain may hold the key to the missing ivory as well as many more deaths aboard his ship than the one Monk knows about. Perry's trademarked plotting, characterization, and verisimilitude in recreating Victorian London gleam brilliantly in this well-crafted historical mystery. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Desde un barco en el Támesis se encuentra anclado, el robo de un cargamento de marfil y uno de los marineros a bordo serán asesinados. Un caso difícil de William Monje, sobre la base de los hábitos y las costumbres de los marineros del puerto y sólo los ocupantes acostumbrados muss.A cargamento de marfil es robado de un buque, y un marinero en la noche de vigilancia ha sido brutalmente asesinado. Un nuevo caso de William monje.

A tranquil weekend party in early December at a magnificent country house is shattered by a suspicious death. Attending the party and taking a leading role in the ensuing investigation is one of the most beloved characters from Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series: Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. Lady Vespasia's friend Isobel has made a cruel remark about Gwendolen Kilmuir on the night Gwendolen was meant to have become engaged to the eligible Bertie Rosythe. Gwendolen flees the room, and the next morning her body is found in the lake in the gardens of the estate. It appears she has jumped from the bridge. The host, Omegus Jones and Vespasia decide to find who or what might have led Gwendolen to resort to such an extreme measure. They vow to make the guilty party seek forgiveness and expiation through the task of taking a sealed letter written by Gwendolen before her death to her mother up in the north of Scotland. The journey will be both physically and emotionally arduous but will bring answers to some unexpected and profound questions.

Sir Arthur Desmond, mentor du commissaire Thomas Pitt, est retrouvé mort dans un club londonien. Accident ? Suicide ? Son fils n'y croit pas et demande à Thomas d'enquêter. Pendant ce temps, au ministère des Colonies, un traître divulgue à l'Allemagne des informations sur la politique anglaise en Afrique. Or Desmond travaillait aux Affaires étrangères et avait porté des accusations contre le gouvernement au sujet des colonies. Les suspects : un groupe d'hommes très influents et fort soucieux de leur réputation. C'est alors que le corps d'une aristocrate londonienne est découvert dans la Tamise... Thomas Pitt et sa femme Charlotte vont risquer leur vie dans cette intrigue qui mêle souvenirs, amitié et affaire d'Etat. C'est toute l'expansion de l'Empire qui est en jeu. La " reine " du polar victorien nous entraîne de nouveau, avec jubilation, dans une époque dont elle connaît tous les secrets.

"Scenes [are] described in lush, sensuous strokes by Ms. Perry. . . . Monk, the dark and brooding hero . . . infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul." —The New York Times Book Review. When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German principality was murdered by his wife, the woman who was responsible for his exile twenty years before. Though private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly, manage to establish that the prince was indeed murdered, as events unfold the likeliest suspect seems to be Countess Zorah herself. . . . "THE DENOUEMENT IS UNEXPECTED AND INGENIOUS." —Los Angeles Times "Perry serves up as arresting an opening as ever." —Kirkus Reviews A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILD®

No Graves As Yet is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War.