Acceptable Loss
A Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery book. Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be...
Perry’s new William and Hester Monk story, a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, outshines all her previous novels in this successful and beloved series.When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant scarf—whose original owner was obviously a man of substance—end up imbedded in the neck of a wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end?Dockside informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer—a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Although Monk and his fearless wife, Hester, would prefer to pin a medal on Parfitt’s killer, duty leads them in another direction—to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780755376841 / 755376846
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Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else. Anne Perry, Acceptable Loss //
Anyone who read Execution Dock Historical fiction set in Victorian London ... Interesting perspective on the role of the Thames in social and economic life ... I was annoyed at the beginning by the Cockney dialect and repetition of the circumstances of the crime, especially because the crime involved sexual abuse of young boys. The story ends with a trial; I wonder... First Anne Perry that I've read and I have a feeling I should have started with the previous one but I enjoyed it. Well drawn scene of London at that time, interesting characters and a plot element that I thought I'd guessed but got to the end and then I wasn't sure. But maybe I need to read the next to find out if I was right.
