William Monk 11 - Slaves of Obsession

his name over and over, searching his face, desperate to know he wasall right. Her voice caught in her throat; her breathing was wild and jerky.
    He grinned at her, and saw the tears of relief run down her cheeks. He could understand so very easily that you could love one woman so much that no one else filled your heart or mind. For a moment he could almost have been sorry for Casbolt. He had wanted Judith all his life. Love could hurt. It would ask for sacrifices greater than the imagination could foresee, and it was not always returned, or even understood. But it did not excuse what he had done. The end does not justify the means.
    Lanyon unfastened Monk’s helmet and lifted it off.
    Hester put her arms around Monk’s neck and buried her head on his shoulder, clinging to him with all the strength she possessed, until it hurt them both, but she could not let go.

A FUNERAL IN BLUE
    by Anne Perry

    Elissa Beck, the wife of Dr. Kristian Beck, a prominent London surgeon, is found strangled along with another woman in the studio of a well-known London artist. Hester Monk presses her husband, Inspector William Monk, to search for evidence that will save her former colleague from the hangman’s noose as well as solve the riddle of Elissa Beck’s secret life and murder.
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THE TWISTED ROOT
    by
Anne Perry
    As private investigator William Monk listens to the young Lucius Stourbridge plead for help in tracking down his runaway fiancée, he feels a sense of heavy foreboding. Miriam Gardiner disappeared suddenly from a croquet party at the luxurious Bayswater mansion of her in-laws-to-be and has not been seen since. But on Hampstead Heath, Monk finds the coach in which Miriam had fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman. There is no trace of Miriam.
    What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk’s attempt to answer that question proves a challenge, as Miriam Gardiner’s fateful flight ends in a packed London courtroom and a charge of murder. And in a race with the hangman, Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly—themselves now newlyweds—desperately pursue the elusive truth … and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom.
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    A BREACH OF PROMISE
A William Monk Novel
    by Anne Perry
    Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society’s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart’s deepest hiding places—and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.
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THE SILENT CRY
    by Anne Perry
    The reign of Queen Victoria brought Londoners fabulous wealth; however, not all citizens of the British capital enjoyed these amenities. For deep in the filthy and dangerous slums of London one could transact secret and shameful business—even the privileged like Leighton Duff who pays for this privilege with his life.
    Rhys Duff, the son of Leighton Duff, is found barely alive next to his father’s body. Inspector William Monk is called to investigate the brutal assaults of the Duffs as well as a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. Could there be a connection? Monk soon uncovers shocking evidence that points to the young Rhys Duff and the possibility that he murdered his own father …
    Published by Ballantine Books.
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