![]() ![]() Monk slowly recovers but cannot recall any of his memory. He does have one visitor - a police detective named Runcorn, who tells the man his name is William Monk, and that before the accident he was also a police detective. ![]() It turns out he has been there three weeks after his carriage overturned, but he has no memory of the accident or anything about himself. Circa 1860, a mysterious, anonymous man awakens in pain in a terrible place - a jail? The workhouse? It turns out he is in a horrible Victorian hospital, and he does not know his own name, nor how he came to be there. The Face of a Stranger is the first in the series, and it grabbed me right away. I was looking for a good neo-Victorian mystery when Perry's Inspector Monk series was recommended. ![]() But in the nicest possible way, because now I am completely hooked on Anne Perry. To Didi and Sherrie, my librarian friends: I thank you, and silently curse you. How did it take me so long to read Anne Perry? ![]()
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