Anne Perry
The Sheen on the Silk
“The character of eunuchs was like the sheen on the silk – fluid, unpredictable. A third gender, male and female,…
A Christmas Promise
This Dickensian tale begins in 1895 London, a poor young girl of eight anxiously searching for Charlie, her uncle’s donkey.…
Execution Dock
William Monk, hero of a series of Victorian crime novels by Anne Perry, is a favorite of mine because he…
Buckingham Palace Gardens
The Prince of Wales has invited some experts to Buckingham Palace to consider a project to build a Cape-to-Cairo railroad…
A Christmas Beginning
Superintendent Runcorn of the Metropolitan Police has come to Anglesey to escape the loneliness of the Christmas season and his…
We Shall Not Sleep
This is the fifth and final volume in Anne Perry’s series of World War I mysteries about the Reavley siblings:…
A Christmas Secret
In December 1890, Clarice Corde accompanies her husband to the village of Cottisham, where he is to stand in while…
Dark Assassin
While on boat patrol with the Thames River Police, Inspector William Monk watches helplessly as Mary Havilland falls to her…
Long Spoon Lane
In this Victorian historical, Perry reminds us that acts of terrorism are not limited to the 21st century. The novel…
The Shifting Tide
The fourteenth installment in Perry’s William Monk series is, once again, set in Victorian London – full of filth and…
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