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.
Key facts about The Face of a Stranger
Anne Perry wrote The Face of a Stranger, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1990. The book has 352 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780804108584 to find the main one.
The Face of a Stranger is book 1 of 24 in the William Monk series. The series has 24 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Anne Perry writes Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, The Christmas Novellas and The World War I Novels, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and historical fiction shelves.
About Anne Perry
Anne Perry was a British author who became one of historical mystery's most prolific and respected voices, best known for two long-running Victorian detective series: the William Monk novels, following an amnesiac police investigator turned private inquiry agent, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, pairing a Scotland Yard inspector with his socially connected wife. See every Anne Perry book in order.
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