Perry manages to paint a convincing historical backdrop with echoes of modern-day fears of urban terrorism. He has no recollection of who he is, what he was working on, and any other details of his life. Detective Monk wakes in the beginning of this novel to find his memory completely void due to an accident with a coach. The action slows when myriad characters, including wives, servants and politicians, hold excessively detailed discussions of the case, but the pace picks up with a spirited pursuit through London and across the Thames. This detective novel by British author Anne Perry is the first William Monk book. True-to-life parliamentary debate ensues over how much power police should be granted to quash the anarchist threat to Queen and country. What readers are saying about The Face of a Stranger: 'A Victorian mystery with plot twists, tension, great characterisation and an excellent standard of historical research ' 'It is very well written and deeper than most mystery novels with very interesting historical details' 'I picked this book due to the wonderful reviews Anne Perry has. Ive read a few of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels by Anne Perry and was. Pitt and fellow detective Victor Narraway soon find themselves up against a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle. Solidly absorbing and Perrys best to date. In The Face of a Stranger, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry introduces us to her enigmatic detective, Investigator William Monk, as he faces a. The chase leads to the group's lair in an abandoned building along grimy Long Spoon Lane, where the body of Magnus Landsborough, son of a well-connected lord, raises disturbing questions about both the young man's association with the underground cell and police procedures to combat terrorists.

(2003), when Special Branch investigator Thomas Pitt is summoned in the middle of the night to the aftermath of a bombing, the work of unknown anarchists intent on wreaking havoc in London in revenge for high-level police corruption. Carnage comes early in Perry's engrossing Victorian historical, the follow-up to Seven Dials

The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry