Corridors of the Night, Anne Perry
Corridors of the Night, Anne Perry
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Corridors of the Night

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/15/2015


Synopsis

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide.

The monomaniacal Rand brothers—Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist—are ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for what was then known as the fatal “white-blood disease.” In London’s Royal Naval Hospital annex, Hester is tending one of the brothers’ dying patients when she stumbles upon three weak, terrified young children, and learns to her horror that they’ve been secretly purchased and imprisoned by the Rands for experimental purposes.

But the Rand brothers are too close to a miracle cure to allow their experiments to be exposed. Before Hester can reveal the truth, she too becomes a prisoner. As Monk and his faithful friends—distinguished lawyer Oliver Rathbone and reformed brothel keeper Squeaky Robinson among them—scour London’s grimy streets and the beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hester’s time, as well as the children’s, is quickly draining away.

Taut with intrigue and laced with white-knuckled terror, Corridors of the Night is Anne Perry at her magnificent, unforgettable best.

About Anne Perry

Sometimes the personal story of a particular author seems almost as intriguing as the books they write. Such is the life of British author Anne Perry (aka Juliet Marion Hulme). As a child Hulme was very ill with tuberculosis and ended up being fostered out by a family in the Caribbean. She did get better, and the family moved to a private island in New Zealand, where she describes her life as a Swiss family Robinson type existence. She became ill again and during her bouts of illness through her teen years, she missed most of her childhood education. However, her mother had prepared her by teaching her how to read and write by the time she was four. Her heart always seemed to be in writing.

At the age of 15, Juliet and her best friend plotted and killed her friend's mother. The three went for a walk in the park and Hulme dropped a stone, causing the mother to bend over to pick it up, and her friend hit her own mother on the head with a half brick. They had planned on the strike killing her, but they had to strike her 20 times before she was dead. The girls were put on trial and each served five years in prison. It is said that they never saw each other again after being released. For many years, nobody connected author Anne Perry as the teen murderer, Juliet Hulme. In 1994, the film Heavenly Creatures, portrayed Hulme and her friend Pauline Parker with characters being played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey respectively.

Perry's genre of writing covers Victorian Era Detective fiction for the most part. Her novels have been centered around two main characters, Thomas Pitt and William Monk. She has published 47 novels and several collections of stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on October 25, 2021

In this 21st book in the "William Monk" series, set in the mid-1800s, an unscrupulous doctor is using extremely unethical procedures. This leads to a trial that raises interesting issues about medical research. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** Hester Monk honed her considerable nursing ski......more

Goodreads review by Candi on November 17, 2015

"The Hippocratic Oath says, 'First, do not harm'! Yet how can you discover new medicine if you make no experiment that might end badly? Who is to take the chances to step forward into the unknown where no one can evaluate the risks?" Anne Perry's Corridor of the Night tackles this question during a t......more

Goodreads review by Beth on November 27, 2015

This was good, but not great. I'll probably always be an Anne Perry fan, but I find I'm getting more and more impatient with some of the dramatic techniques the author uses. Perry's always been prone to having her characters carry on long mental conversations with themselves during which they questi......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on January 14, 2016

While I still enjoyed the story, this one felt like Anne Perry just phoned it in. Two characters that were in earlier books had their names changed (poor continuity), and from the context and description it was clear who they were supposed to be. Also, there is a rather big plot line in the earlier......more

Goodreads review by Randi Annie on January 27, 2020

Ex Crimean Nurse Hester Monk covers a shift for a friend when she finds a secret hospital ward where scared and very sick children are kept. While Hester tries to keep them alive, she finds out they are part of a cynical medical experiment. The three children and Hester herself soon find themselves......more