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The Face of a Stranger
The Face of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel | Anne Perry
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"Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.... A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery Guild From the Paperback edition.
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Megbert
Face of a Stranger | Anne Perry
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Plenty here to enjoy, historical Victorian murder mystery with a subtext commentary on the British class system and emerging feminism. However I found that it stumbled over itself with too much repetitive navel gazing and no real loveable characters. Great twist to the mystery on conclusion but I doubt I‘ll ever pick up the next book in the series.

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DGRachel
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The story is a slower build than Perry‘s early Pitt novels, but I have always preferred the Monk series. In this first novel, Monk awakens with amnesia following an accident, & must not only solve the case he was working on prior to his accident, but piece together his identity, while trying to conceal the truth of his amnesia from his boss. It‘s an intricate mystery with great characters & Davina Porter is one of my favorite audiobook narrators.

KCofKaysville I quite liked it when I read it several years ago. It was my only Anne Perry. @DGRachel. 4y
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DGRachel
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I love the Spin the Wheel app for when I just can‘t make a decision. I‘m going to start my audiobook reread of this Inspector Monk book. It seems like a billion years ago that I read it the first time (in reality, more like 20 or so, but still). 💖 It should be good background noise while I work. (And yes, I was lazy and only put in a keyword for my options. 😂)

Megabooks I love spin the wheel too! 4y
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Melli

So as cleaned out my books of anything I knew I really was never going to read I found this one I found in the used book store a while back so I figured het light a candle sit at my kitchen table while everyone is upstairs for the night and read by said candle light play some rain ASMR on YouTube on the tablet and relax.. well I‘m definitely have the right mood going so much so I kinda blanked out and forgot I was in my kitchen. Back to reading

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thereadingowlvina
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[March04] My #belovedcrimeseries would be the William Monk series by Anne Perry. So far I've read 7 of the 24 books in this series. What intrigues me was the author's dark past which I found out later on
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/when-anne-perrys-dark-past-...

She is a talented writer and her novels are full of suspense 🕵😮

#MarchMadness #historicalmystery #historicalfiction @josteele

somebooksaround What an interesting premise! These look very interesting!! 😃🙌 7y
thereadingowlvina @josteele Yes they are! And she has so many books. Will take me a while to finish the series 😁 7y
somebooksaround I looove when the series is super long. The story stays alive for ages and that‘s the best!! Thanks for the recommendation!!! 😃🙌 7y
thereadingowlvina @josteele True that! I hope you'll enjoy this series 😁 7y
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Seshat
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For #mysteriouslove #17booklove #day13 William Monk and Heater Latterly of the Anne Perry mysteries get my vote. I don't have the physical books anyone but I like the cover of this French edition I found online. @jess.how

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Khyde
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Really enjoyed! Haven't read anything by this author before and I will read more in the series. I thought the plot maybe wandered a bit in the middle but finished strong at the end. Interested in reading her books set in World War I.

KCofKaysville It's the only Perry I've read but I liked it. 4y
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