The Book Depository A Sunless Sea (William Monk Mystery, Book 18) by Anne Perry
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Description: A Sunless Sea (William Monk Mystery, Book 18) : Paperback : Headline Publishing Group : 9780755386208 : : 13 Nov 2012 : Inspector William Monk investigates a brutal riverside killing and a deadly opium conspiracy in the eighteenth novel in Anne Perry's acclaimed series. The Book Depository A Sunless Sea (William Monk Mystery, Book 18) by Anne Perry - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Jane Baker
Rating: 5
Review: A big fan of Perry's William Monk series I read this after a break of some years but it was easy to pick up the history and relive the previous novel around the Ballinger story. Perry's plots stay with the reader long after the book is finished. As always her plot is taut, her crafting of it skilful, the characters full-bodied. The reader becomes immersed in the tension and gripped by the execution of the development. The whole is based on Britain's part in the Opium Wars and Perry's research is thorough with enough background to acquaint the reader without giving so much detail that the part it plays remains dominant. There is a diversity of characters from the mysterious Zena Gadney, the unpalatable Barclays, Hester Monk as anarchic as ever, so much a woman born too soon, Monk himself drives doggedly on, and Rathbone driven too, with his failed marriage tearing him apart in an emotional wasteland that we've not seen in him previously. An eclectic mix which cannot fail to compel.
Author: SherriLee
Rating: 3
Review: There are probably close to a hundred sentences in this novel that state that opium is dangerous and addictive. We get it--Okay? That aside-- the story is kind of a mess. While Hester is more evident than in some recent volumes, she has been turned into little more than a helpful housewife-- and she was such a good character. The chronology in A Sunless Sea is a mess and chapter 18 is particularly sloppy and frustrating. Characters are privy to things they could not know--they admit to things previously denied under oath--they contradict their previous stories (without anyone seeming to notice) and one character in particular seems to know some pretty private stuff and no one seems surprised. Perjury is not mentioned, discrepancies not noted and the story goes over and over the same ground ad-nauseum. This is far from Perry's best-- with some editing and pruning though it would have been a much better book.
