Ebook Free The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry
So, just be here, locate guide The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry now and also check out that swiftly. Be the initial to read this e-book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry by downloading and install in the web link. We have other books to check out in this website. So, you could locate them also easily. Well, now we have actually done to offer you the finest publication to review today, this The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry is really proper for you. Never dismiss that you require this book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry to make much better life. On the internet e-book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry will truly give simple of every little thing to read and also take the benefits.
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry
Ebook Free The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry
The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry As a matter of fact, publication is actually a window to the globe. Even many people may not like checking out publications; guides will certainly consistently give the specific info about reality, fiction, experience, experience, politic, religion, and also a lot more. We are here a site that provides collections of publications more than the book shop. Why? We give you lots of numbers of connect to obtain the book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry On is as you need this The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry You could locate this book effortlessly right here.
This publication The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry is anticipated to be one of the most effective vendor publication that will make you really feel pleased to buy and review it for finished. As known could common, every book will have certain points that will certainly make an individual interested a lot. Also it originates from the writer, type, content, as well as the publisher. However, many people likewise take guide The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry based on the theme and title that make them impressed in. as well as right here, this The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry is quite recommended for you since it has appealing title and motif to read.
Are you really a fan of this The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry If that's so, why do not you take this book now? Be the very first individual that such as and also lead this book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry, so you can get the factor and also messages from this book. Don't bother to be confused where to get it. As the other, we share the connect to check out as well as download and install the soft data ebook The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry So, you could not bring the printed publication The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry all over.
The presence of the on-line book or soft data of the The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry will alleviate people to obtain the book. It will certainly additionally save more time to only search the title or author or publisher to obtain till your book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry is revealed. Then, you can go to the web link download to see that is given by this site. So, this will certainly be a very good time to start appreciating this book The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry to read. Always great time with publication The Shifting Tide, By Anne Perry, constantly great time with money to invest!
In her new masterpiece featuring private inquiry agent William Monk, New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry displays her prodigious writing talent. With insight, compassion, and a portraitist’s genius, Perry illuminates the shifting tide of emotions encompassing Queen Victoria’s London and the people who live there—aristocrats, brothel owners, thieves, Dickensian ruffians, and their evil keepers. She takes us through dangerous backstreets where the poor eke out their humble livings, and into the mansions of the rich, safe and secure in their privileged lives. Or so they believe. . . .
William Monk knows London’s streets like the back of his hand; after all, they are where he earns his living. But the river Thames and its teeming docks— where towering schooners and clipper ships unload their fabulous cargoes and wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades—is unknown territory.
Only dire need persuades him to accept an assignment from shipping magnate Clement Louvain to investigate the theft of a cargo of African ivory from Louvain’s recently docked schooner, the Maude Idris. Monk is desperate for work, not only to feed himself and his wife, Hester, but to keep open the doors of Hester’s clinic, a last resort for sick and starving street women.
But he wonders: Why didn’t Louvain report the ivory theft directly to the River Police? Why did he warn Monk not to investigate the murder of one of the Maude Idris crew? Even more mysterious, why has Louvain brought to Hester’s clinic a desperately ill woman who he claims is the discarded mistress of an old friend? Neither Hester nor Monk anticipates the nightmare answers to these questions . . . nor the trap that soon so fatefully ensnares them.
In this magnificent novel, Anne Perry holds the reader spellbound, as Monk and Hester struggle to save themselves and their world from a catastrophe whose dimensions they can scarcely measure.
- Sales Rank: #1046149 in Books
- Published on: 2004-04-27
- Released on: 2004-04-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.52" h x 1.21" w x 6.43" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Amazon.com Review
Commissioned to find the precious cargo of ivory stolen by river thieves from the hold of Clement Louvain's ocean-going schooner, private enquiry agent William Monk is intrigued by his new surroundings. The waterfront of the River Thames is a world unto itself, but without the help of the famed River Police, Monk hardly stands a chance of retrieving the ivory or tracking down the murderous men who killed an innocent crew member while robbing Louvain's ship. Not so coincidentally, Monk's wife Hester, who operates a shelter for sick and injured women of the streets, discovers that a woman with a mysterious connection to Louvain may hold the key to the missing ivory as well as many more deaths aboard his ship than the one Monk knows about. Perry's trademarked plotting, characterization, and verisimilitude in recreating Victorian London gleam brilliantly in this well-crafted historical mystery. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
The strain of publishing two major novels a year continues to show in bestseller Perry's 14th historical to feature private inquiry agent William Monk and his wife, Hester, despite the fresh start for Monk, who has recovered from the amnesia that afflicted him in Death of a Stranger (2002). In the autumn of 1873, because he needs the money, Monk agrees to recover valuable cargo stolen from a ship waiting to be unloaded at an East End London dock for the ship's owner, Clement Louvain, with the proviso that Louvain will also prosecute the thieves for murdering the ship's watchman. Monk enlists the aid of a young Cockney orphan, Scuff, who doubts Monk's ability to investigate a Docklands crime: "Yer in't got the wits fer it, nor the stomach neither. Yer stick to wot yer can do-wotever that is." Meanwhile, Hester, who receives no pay for the clinic she runs for streetwalkers, must deal with an unexpected death that she suspects may be murder. Unfortunately, the author too often tells rather than shows. The reader waits impatiently for the "ruthless" Monk to say or do something that suggests that quality. Still, with its focus on the lower classes and the Thames, the plot will resonate with fans of Dickens's riparian novel, Our Mutual Friend. And, as always, Perry uses her characters and story to comment on ethical issues that remain as relevant today as they were in Victorian times. Expect another bestseller.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Throughout much of the long-running William Monk series, set in Victorian England, the former London police officer and now "private enquiry agent" has been defined by his amnesia. In book after book, Monk has struggled to regain knowledge of his identity before the coach accident that took his long-term memory. In Perry's last Monk novel, Death of a Stranger (2002), the investigator regained his memory. In the latest, he barely remembers his amnesia at all and leaves the streets to work London's "longest street," the Thames. The question is: What is Monk without his amnesia? This book seems to abandon the now fully functioning Monk in favor of the far more varied and changeable Thames. After Monk is hired to investigate the theft of a cargo of ivory from a merchant ship and a related murder, he and the reader become aware of what a universe the river represents--and a crime-riddled one at that. It is fascinating to watch Monk try (and fail) to apply his London street smarts to a secretive milieu totally governed by the tides. Monk's investigation blends into his wife's work (Hester runs a clinic for assaulted or sick prostitutes) when a shipowner's cast-off mistress is brought in to the clinic with a mysterious ailment. This ailment eventually threatens all of London. Sketchy characterization, a somewhat obvious plot, but marvelous historical material on the Thames. Connie Fletcher
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding story
By Amazon Customer
As with all of Anne Perry's books, The Shifting Tide, has such a beautifully told story that I lost track of time as I read it. The historically accurate details that she includes make the characters come alive and for a moment, I was taken back into 19th century London. I have enjoyed reading all of her books, but I think this book is one of the best. The story drew me in and held on until the last page. It can be enjoyed without reading the whole series, but once you're done, I bet you'll want to read more of William Monk, Hester, and the rest of the characters.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent!!!!
By T. L Williams
This was an excellent book in the series. I love the way Anne Perry develops characters. With a lot of series, I find that the author sometimes seams to forget what was previously written, and writes something that clashes with what had already bee established. But not this series, or, the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, also by Anne Perry.
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
compelling and memorable
By tregatt
Gather your cats/dogs/children and spouse/significant other, and firmly let them know that for the next 3 to 5 hours, YOU ARE NOT TO BE DISTURBED. And then, unplug the 'phone, pour yourself a thimble full of good port, make for your comfy chair and make your comfortable. For Anne Perry has written another gem that you simply cannot miss!! True, where the mystery subplot is concerned, things may be a little lacking; however if you look at the novel as an examination of human nature, at the unexpected strengths and hidden frailities of the characters involved, "The Shifting Tide" then becomes the compelling must read novel that it rightly is, whether or not you are a mystery buff.
William Monk has been hired by shipping magnate Clement Louvain to recover a shipment of ivory tusks stolen from his schooner, the Maude Idris. Normally, Monk would stay away from a case in which he is at such a disadvantage (Monk may know the streets of London very well, but he knows next to nothing about the river, the docks or the wharfs), but money is low and the need dire, so that in spite of his reservations, Monk agrees to take on the case. Louvain wants the stolen shipment found quickly and without the involvement of the River Police -- an especially tricky combination when murder is thrown into the mix, for the thieves had bashed in the head of one of the sailors keeping watch aboard the Maude Idris. Even stranger, Louvain is not at all interested in seeing that the murderer is apprehended and goes so far as to forbid Monk from wasting his time going down that road. Now why would he do this? Surely the murderer was one of the thieves? Monk senses that Louvain is keeping a great many things from him. A suspicion that grows when he learns that Louvain has taken a desperately ill woman (whom he claims is a friend's ex-mistress) to Hester's free clinic. But what neither Monk nor Hester anticipated was the nightmare that would soon unfold, and that would threaten their lives and happiness...
Mystery-wise, "The Shifting Tide" while intorguing was a little touch and go -- not too many cunning plot twists or sinister red herring culprits for Monk to track down. Even the usually tense courtroom scenes where Sir Oliver Rathbone is centerstage is absent; this time a healthy chunk of the novel is devoted to what Hester and her helpers go through as they battle illness, fatigue and their own inner demons. And yet what a suspenseful read "The Shifting Tide" was! The sense of time ticking away and of lives hanging in the balance was always there; and that together with the colourful and vivid characters that the authour created made this a very compelling read indeed. But most of all it was her portrayals of the unexpected inner strengths and nobility that the unlikeliest of characters exhibited, and her portrayal of human frailities, that made "The Shifing Tide" a memorable and worthwhile read.
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry PDF
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry EPub
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry Doc
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry iBooks
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry rtf
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry Mobipocket
The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar