The Twisted Root: A William Monk Novel (平装)
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品牌: Anne Perry
基本信息出版社:BALLANTINE BOOKS (2011年3月22日)平装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0345514106条形码:9780345514103产品尺寸及重量:17.5 x 9.9 x 3 cm ; 182 gASIN:0345514106
商品描述内容简介In a stunning feat of the imagination, Anne Perry encloses readers within the magic circle of her genius and brings to life the lost world of England's Victorian Age. Hoofbeats clatter on cobblestones, gaslight glimmers through fog, and in the exclusive privacy of elegant drawing rooms, powerful men and women once again live the splendor and shame of that matchless era. With The Twisted Root, Perry holds us rapt with a chilling story of love, betrayal, and consummate evil.
As private investigator William Monk listens to 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 where brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone wages an uphill battle to absolve her from 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.
From the Hardcover edition.媒体推荐"A NOVEL WHOSE SUSPENSE REMAINS HIGH UNTIL THE FINAL PAGES . . . Anne Perry is [a] master of crime fiction who rarely fails to deliver a strong story and a colorful cast of characters."
--The Baltimore Sun
"When a law flies in the face of moral justice, can a person be condemned for defying it--even to the point of murder? Anne Perry argues the issue with uncommon eloquence . . ."
--The New York Times Book Review
From the Paperback edition.
