Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil, and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickenss eyes pop.--The New York Times Book ReviewVictorias London was the queen of the universe, a dazzling metropolis from whose magnificent mansions and discreetly luxurious clubs flowed the strategies that built the greatest empire ever known. Meanwhile the citys poor suffered and died in hopeless obscurity. Inspector William Monk knows his citys best and its worst--or so he believes until the day when charming Genevieve Stonefield comes to plead with him to find her missing husband.In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving in business, a man of probity and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint.
