In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale�s angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime�which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman.Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale�s nurses, and barrister Oliver Rathbone, Monk assembles a portrait of the remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil that darkens every level of society, and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past.
Authors
Anne Perry
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2009-09-29
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780345513984
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