Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
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Dark Assassin

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/19/2014


Synopsis

On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Ever the investigator, Monk learns
that the woman, Mary Havilland, had planned to marry the fair-haired man who shared her fate. He also discovers that Mary’s father had recently died in a supposed suicide. But Mary’s friends share their own dark suspicions with Monk, who now faces the mysteries surrounding three deaths.
Aided by his intrepid wife, Hester, Monk searches for answers. From luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots, to the sewers beneath the city where poor folk live in crippling poverty, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.

“Brilliant … a page-turning thriller … blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail."—Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche

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 Colleen

I don't know why I like her or why I read all her books. I've usually annoyed throughout the whole thing because of how emo her characters are. Every second of every day they are filled with haunting memories and personal insights for EVERYTHING. Basically it is: "And as she spread the marmalade on......more

Goodreads review by Alcides

Excelente inicio con Anne Perry!! Y lo mejor de todo es que no sabia que sus novelas de misterio estaban ambientadas en la época victoriana. Y eso fue un plus de satisfacción a una novela muy bien contada. El misterio, la intriga, los personajes y la ambientación y por sobre todo el cierre son excele......more