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Title: The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry ISBN: 0-8041-0858-7 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perry is now two times as classy!
Comment: William Monk awakens in a Victorian-era London hospital with amnesia. Over the course of this book, he returns to his job as a policeman, hoping that work will help him regain his memory as well as his detecting skills. What's fascinating is that not all he discovers about his life before the accident is flattering--including the fact that he may very well have been responsible for a serious crime. Over the course of Perry's new series--this book being the debut--Monk's past will at various times haunt, delight, and maybe even endanger him, and the people who come to be his allies don't always like him, but their loyalties to one another shine through. As with the Pitt mysteries, Anne Perry's trademark detail and eye-opening descriptions of what Victorian life was really like make this an entertaining way to read away a winter afternoon
Rating: 5
Summary: I'll take Monk over Pitt any day.
Comment: The mistake Perry made in her Pitt series was developing her characters too quickly--she has had to compensate by introducing a rather large cast of supporting characters. This, the first in her William Monk series, avoids that gaffe by inducing amnesia in her hero--he hardly knows who he is or what he's about. It may be preposterous, but it's also an enjoyable read and an outstanding mystery.
The story has Monk attempting to learn the set of circumstances that resulted in his hospitalization and amnesia--he must face the horrifying possibility that he was involved in a vicious crime, and he knows too little of himself to trust that he was incapable of such a deed. He learns through the reactions of others that he was (is?) not a nice man, and the more he learns, the more he doubts himself. The fact that his past does not come flooding back to him after another bump on the head speaks well to Perry's prowess as a writer.
Hester Latterly and Oliver Rathbone are the edgy counterparts to Monk's dark personality. Though never friends, these three circle each other with wary respect. Monk himself is an appealing character, the mystery is top-notch, and the Victorian setting is quintessential Perry--she has made it uniquely her own.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first William Monk book
Comment: Even though the first few chapters seemed a bit slow for my taste, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The personal problem of William Monk is different from most main characters in other books. The reader is getting to know him as he, too, is getting to know himself. I was surprised at the end of chapter 10 when he remembered something about himself, and for those who have read this book will know why. John Evan and Hester Latterly are other characters I liked, and I'm glad to hear they are in the other books. I didn't care too much for Hester's "flashbacks" from the war, but then at the end I was thankful there was a reason for them. I will definitely read the next book, A Dangerous Mourning, despite some of the bad reviews written about it.
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Title: Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry ISBN: 0804110379 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Defend and Betray by Anne Perry ISBN: 080411188X Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Sudden, Fearful Death by Anne Perry ISBN: 0804112835 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry ISBN: 0804115079 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Sins of the Wolf by Anne Perry ISBN: 0804113831 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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