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An echo of murder / Anne Perry.
"In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies brutally murdered in his office, surrounded by seventeen candles. As similar murders crop up, Monk suspects ethnic prejudice as a motive and turns to London's Hungarian community in search of clues. But he finds his inquiries stymied by a language he doesn't speak and a population with growing mistrust of the police. With the help of his wife, Hester -- a former battlefield nurse, whose old colleague may be tangled up in the murders --- Monk must race time and terror to find the mysterious killer."-- Publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780425285015
- ISBN: 9781472234162 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780425285039 (trade pbk. 2018)
- Physical Description: 286 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 August #2
Cmdr. William Monk, of the Thames River Police, is faced with a series of murders among Shadwell's Hungarian circle as sanguinary as they are ritualistic.If Hungarian immigrants have not completely integrated into London's larger community by 1870, their history in the city is marked more by peaceful separatism than strife. But that sense of peace is shattered by pharmacist Antal Dobokai's discovery of the body of widowed Imrus Fodor in the warehouse he owned on Shadwell Dockâa crime whose location calls Monk (Revenge in a Cold River, 2016, etc.) to the scene. Fodor has been killed by a bayonet. His fingers have been broken, his lips severed and crammed into his mouth. Seventeen burning candles, two of them purple, decorate the murder scene. Dobokai, who clearly aspires to a leadership position among his people, offers to serve Monk as a translator and guide, but with no obvious suspect, Monk can only wait for further developments, which arrive in the form of a second c orpse. Impoverished former landowner Lorand Gazda has been stabbed to death in the kitchen of his Garth Street home, his wounds, the condition of the body, and even the 17 candles obvious echoes of the earlier crime scene. More murders follow the same pattern, until a mob desperate to find a scapegoat outside their borders fastens on Dr. Herbert Fitzherbert, who worked alongside Monk's wife, Hester Latterly, during her days as an unlicensed nurse in Crimea. Fitz, fluent in Hungarian and still dogged by nightmares of his service, honestly can't remember whether he killed anyone, and Monk is obliged to arrest him to save his life. The ensuing trial produces no notable twists before a denouement whose last-minute arrival masks its essential lack of surprise. Lesser work from a sometime master, less striking for its echoes of a Victorian past than for its previsions of a xenophobic future marked on both sides by distrust and fear. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 July #4
Set in the summer of 1870, bestseller Perry's skillful 23rd William Monk novel (after 2016's
Copyright 2017 Publisher Weekly.Revenge in a Cold River ) opens with the Thames River Police commander's arrival at a riverfront warehouse, where Hungarian businessman Imrus Fodor lies dead, impaled by a bayonet. Fodor's fingers are broken, and 17 candles are arrayed nearby, all bloody and two of an unusual blue. The victim's enigmatic countryman, Antal Dobokai, who discovered the body, serves as translator as Monk investigates London's close-knit Hungarian community. Leads are few, until identical murders occur. Londoners panic, ethnic tensions flare, and Monk's wife, Hester, becomes involved when a friend is suspected. Though the book's final quarter feels rushed, Perry smoothly intertwines themesâwar's lingering cost, tensions around immigration and othernessâthat challenge in both her period and our own. Her gritty depictions of Victorian medicine at home and on the battlefield ground the story in wrenching realism.Agent: Donald Maass, Donald Maass Literary. (Sept.)
