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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 new case with no memory of his past life. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Arthur Conan Doyle.
'Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens' eyes pop' - New York Times Book Review
He is not going to die, after all, in this Victorian pesthouse called a hospital. But the accident that felled him on a London street has left him with only half a life, because his memory and his entire past have vanished. His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective; the mirror reflects a face that women would like, but he senses he has been more feared than loved.
Monk is given a particularly sensational case: the brutal murder of Major the Honourable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and a popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburgh Square. It's an assignment to make or break an investigator, for the exalted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets.
Suggesting that his superior, the wily Runcorn, hopes he will fail, Monk returns to a world where he cannot distinguish friend from foe. Grasping desperately for any clue to his own past and to the identity of the killer, each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answers he seeks but dreads to find.
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The face of a stranger: a novel
2008, Ballantine Books
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034551355X 9780345513557
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The Face of a Stranger
1995, Recorded Books Inc.
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0788703218 9780788703218
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The Face of a Stranger (Inspector William Monk Mysteries)
May 5, 1994, Headline Book Publishing
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0747243557 9780747243557
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The Face of a Stranger (William Monk Novels)
September 23, 1991, Fawcett
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0804108587 9780804108584
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