Slaves of Obsession

Its place in William Monk

Slaves of Obsession is book 11 in the William Monk series. It follows The Twisted Root. It is followed by A Funeral in Blue. 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…