About “A Sunless Sea”
A high-end prostitute is found brutally murdered on the London docks, and Monk's quest to discover the truth behind her death leads him down a shocking path, littered with secrets that have been buried since the infamous Opium Wars. Monk must unravel the victim's link to the widow of a dead doctor, and the doctor's vanished report on the misuse of opium, before the killer strikes again. Meanwhile, Rathbone's personal demons threaten to tear him apart as he struggles to decide what to do with the "legacy" Arthur Ballinger left him at the end of Acceptable Loss: the terrible photographs Ballinger used to blackmail the clientele of the notorious prostitution boats. (Description courtesy of Penguin Random House.)
Praise for “A Sunless Sea”
“Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”
“Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue . . . [the] best in the series to date.”
“[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”
Book details
- First published
- 2013
- Latest edition
- 2013 · ISBN 9780345510655
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