William Monk · Book 1
The Face of a Stranger
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780804108584
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Face of a Stranger is the novel that opens William Monk, Anne Perry's series, first published in 1990. It's the natural place to begin, in a series that runs to 24 books in this catalogue and continues here with A Dangerous Mourning.
Its place in William Monk
The Face of a Stranger is book 1 in the William Monk series. It is followed by A Dangerous Mourning. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780804108584