MysteryLarge Print EditionWith her grimly detailed descriptions of the match factories, sweatshops, paupers hospitals and tenement rookeries crowded into these slums, Perry brings a rank sense of reality to the wretched living conditions of the working poor. New York TimesIts the sense of reality related in the above review that places Anne Perrys Victorian mysteries head and shoulders above the rest. In this outing, Inspector William Monk must solve the beating death of a respected solicitor, and the near fatal beating of his son. In a heart-stopping courtroom drama, another haunting case unfolds.
