Slaves of Obsession - A William Monk Novel

Zusatztext “A rich tapestry of period details . . . Perry keeps up the suspense right to the end.” — Baltimore Sun “When it comes to the Victorian murder mystery! no one can top [Anne] Perry. . . . This is one of her best.”— San Francisco Examiner   “Scenes are brilliantly etched . . . [Perry is] the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christie.”— Chicago Sun-Times “Meticulously constructed . . . Perry’s images of the carnage and confusion of battle are relentless in their intensity! unflinching in their truth-telling detail.”— The New York Times Book Review   “A welcome and entertaining read . . . Perry writes with a deft sense of history and place.”— The Cincinnati Post Informationen zum Autor Anne Perry was the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. She was also the author of a series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's son, Daniel, as well as the Elena Standish series; a series of five World War I novels; twenty-one holiday novels; and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry died in 2023. Klappentext The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton's armaments. Soon Monk and Hester's forebodings are fulfilled as one member of the party is brutally murdered and two others disappear- along with Alberton's entire inventory of weapons. As Monk and Hester track the man they believe to be the murderer all the way to Washington, D.C., and the bloody battlefield at Manassas, Slaves of Obsession twists and turns like a powder-keg fuse and holds the reader breathless and spellbound."We are invited to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Alberton," Hester said in reply to Monk's questioning gaze across the breakfast table. "They are friends of Callandra's. She was to go as well, but has been called to Scotland unexpectedly." "I suppose you would like to accept anyway," he deduced, watching her face. He usually read her emotions quickly, sometimes with startling accuracy, at others misunderstanding entirely. On this occasion he was correct. "Yes, I would. Callandra said they are charming and interesting and have a very beautiful home. Mrs. Alberton is half Italian, and apparently Mr. Alberton has travelled quite a lot as well." "Then I suppose we had better go. Short notice, isn't it?" he said less than graciously. It was short notice indeed, but Hester was not disposed to find unnecessary fault with something which promised to be interesting, and possibly even the beginning of a new friendship. She did not have many friends. The nature of her work as a nurse had meant that her friendships were frequently of a fleeting nature. She had not been involved with any gripping cause for quite some little time. Even Monk's cases, while financially rewarding, had over the last four months of spring and early summer been most uninteresting, and he had not sought her assistance, or in most of them her opinion. She did not mind that, robberies were tedious, largely motivated by greed, and she did not know the people concerned. "Good," she said with a smile, folding up the letter. "I shall write back immediately saying that we shall be delighted." His answering look was wry, only very slightly sarcastic. They arrived at the Alberton house in Tavistock Square just before half past seven. It was, as Callandra had said, handsome, although Hester would not have thought it worth remarking...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anne Perry
• Edition: Ballantine
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9780345514127
• ISBN: 978-0-345-51412-7
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 206 mm x 23 mm
• Thèmes: William Monk; William Monk Novels; William Monk; William Monk Mystery
• Catégorie: Littérature > Suspense