A sudden, fearful death
Subtitle: a William Monk novel
By: Anne Perry.
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780345513984
Subjects: Monk, William (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister Oliver Rathbone, Monk assembles a portrait of the remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil that darkens every level of society, and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past--Publisher's description.