William Monk · Book 24

Dark Tide Rising

by Anne Perry

Published
1 January 2018
Pages
289
ISBN-13
9780399179914
Type
novel

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About this book

Dark Tide Rising, published in 2018 at 289 pages, is the 24th and final William Monk novel, following An Echo of Murder in Anne Perry's Victorian detective series. It closes out the run for the amnesiac inspector who spent the series reconstructing his own past case by case alongside his wife Hester and barrister Oliver Rathbone, with no further entries published after Perry's death in 2023.

Its place in William Monk

Dark Tide Rising is book 24 in the William Monk series. It follows An Echo of Murder. See the full William Monk reading order.

William Monk opens on total disorientation: Inspector Monk wakes in a London hospital in 1856 with no memory of who he is, only the outward evidence of who he was -- a reputation among Metropolitan Police colleagues for ruthless brilliance and very few friends. He hides the amnesia and returns to work, forced to reconstruct his own past case by case, one buried resentment at a time, while the mystery of an unsolved investigation that may implicate Monk himself hangs over the opening books. Anne Perry uses the…

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