num_pages: 368
description: Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys. The police cannot fathom these brutal assaults, until shrewd investigator William Monk uncovers a connection between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. Then it begins to seem shockingly clear that young Rhys Duff must have killed his own father. In a heartstopping courtroom drama, the Crown's case against Rhys Duff, accused of patricide, begins its inexorable unfolding.
language: English
title: The Silent Cry
titlecomplete: The Silent Cry (William Monk, #8)
characters: William Monk
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Victorian, Mystery, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 4075
places: London, England
series: William Monk
publisher: Ivy Books