Funeral in blue

By Anne Perry

Subjects: Nurses in fiction, Nurses, Large type books, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Historical fiction, Private investigators in fiction, Fiction, William Monk (Fictitious character), Latterly, hester (fictitious character), fiction, Monk, william (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, Leadership, Detective and mystery stories

Description: In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London's opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk's colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck's death, but the riddle of her life. . . .