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June 1st 2000
by Headline Book Publishing
(first published 2000)
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Paperback, 256 pages
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074726323X
(isbn13: 9780747263234)
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A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurio…more
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Read in August, 2009
Anne Perry uses the cultural mores of the 18th century as the backdrop for her books, and in The Twisted Root the reader is delivered into a time when cultural taboos leave a woman ready to die rather than tell what she knows about three murders that she has been charged with committing. Even though the plot twists in this Perry book keep readers involved, the characters are missing the intensity of the earlier Monk books. It seems once William Monk recovered his memory and decided to settle int...more
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Read in October, 2007
I hadn't read an Anne Perry book in a long time. This one was really good. It dealt with a lot of women's issues, like poor pay and respect for nurses. One of the characters supposedly worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Made me want to go read about Florence. I had an inkling of where the plot was going, but I didn't have it all worked out. I listened to it on CD and the reader was excellent, as most of the readers I've listened to are.
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Read in January, 2000
Can't decide between two or three stars. Read it as an antidote to Raybourn's Silent in the Grave - either to make that seem more enjoyable due to more verbalised romance, or to make it disappear from my mind by being the better original.
Had forgotten I had read this one before, although I quickly did remember. Skimmed then, esp. all of the war stories, this time not just the Crimean ones (even if it is a series it's too much by now to have Hester say the same thing every ten pages in ...more
Had forgotten I had read this one before, although I quickly did remember. Skimmed then, esp. all of the war stories, this time not just the Crimean ones (even if it is a series it's too much by now to have Hester say the same thing every ten pages in ...more
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Read in March, 2002
The Twisted Root - G+
Anne Perry
William Monk, the unquestionably handsome, somewhat vain, but genuinely tender-hearted "agent of enquiry" is back on the streets of Victorian London, investigating his 10th case, a missing woman. Miriam Gardiner was due to be betrothed to a much younger man, a well-to-do gentleman named Lucius Stourbridge. But during a family croquet party, the bride-to-be vanished, apparently fleeing in a coach driven by a family servant named Treadwell. Perh...more
Anne Perry
William Monk, the unquestionably handsome, somewhat vain, but genuinely tender-hearted "agent of enquiry" is back on the streets of Victorian London, investigating his 10th case, a missing woman. Miriam Gardiner was due to be betrothed to a much younger man, a well-to-do gentleman named Lucius Stourbridge. But during a family croquet party, the bride-to-be vanished, apparently fleeing in a coach driven by a family servant named Treadwell. Perh...more
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Read in November, 2009
The set-up was slow, and the author had a few writing tics that the editor should have fixed, but Perry does a pretty good job of raising the stakes and also making things "much much worse" (in the words of Don Maas) for her protagonist. The end is satisfying and remarkably tense, considering there is a dearth of exploding helicopters in Victorian England. ;-)
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Read in March, 2010
Yet again, Anne Perry does it! This book is my favourite of all her mysteries. I love the Monk Series best of all. The Twisted Root grips from the beginning, and won't let go, even after you've finished! Every character is convincing and exciting, making it hard to guess who did the dirty deed.
I highly recommend it!
I highly recommend it!
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Read in August, 2009
Finally, Monk and Hester marry-(had already happened on the first page). I had figured out parts of the mystery already, but there were still some twists and turns that shocked. I like how Hester's choices weren't quite so black and white in this mystery.
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Read in February, 2009
I liked this book fairly well but it did leave a few unanswered questions in my mind (on the other hand, I often read too fast for my own good so I may have missed the answers). Good mystery with a few odd twists.
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Read in June, 2009
I was told that this book had a twisty ending and maybe that's why I saw it coming but it was still a good story. Showing the early days of nursing as a profession struggling to be more than just scut work, the lack of access to medical care for the working poor and of course, the missing fiance and the murdered coachman.
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Read in February, 2009
This is a William Monk mystery novel -- the one just after William Monk and Hester Latterly's wedding. A good read. Although I did see who had done the murders long before it was revealed.
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Read in August, 2005
Another great mystery in the Monk-Latterly series. What happens when a young man's fiance flees her engagement party and disappears? This one kept me guessing to the very end.
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What saved this novel from being too dark and "ewwwww" was the fabulous writing. Not my favorite in the series.
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Read in May, 2009
I think I'm getting sick of this series. But it's always nice to have something to fall back on.
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Read in December, 2000
set in Victorian England, this series dragged as a man tries to find his missing fiancee.
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Read in March, 2010
This is another absorbing Anne Perry novel with William and Hester Monk trying to solve the murder mystery.
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A fun mystery novel. I'm guessing all of the William Monk series is good.
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Read in May, 2008
Sound recording. Anne Perry is a master of the English detective story.
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Read in September, 2009
Not one of my favorites as far as the mystery is concerned (saw too much of it coming too early in the story), but I did like the new Monk and Hester combination... so that made up for guessing much of the storyline in advance (which I don't always do with Anne Perry books).
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Read in December, 2009
recommends it for:
series mystery fans
This book was a fine piece of detective work much done by Hester. I enjoy the "triangle" which is getting all the more interesting.
Did the upper classes of London have any good and just members? Are all of the well-to-do (at least in the mystery genre) participants in foul behavior and horrendous understakings. I'd like to meet a noble, upperclass Victorian...they all seem to be so smarmy. Maybe it's just Anne Perry's view of the world.
Did the upper classes of London have any good and just members? Are all of the well-to-do (at least in the mystery genre) participants in foul behavior and horrendous understakings. I'd like to meet a noble, upperclass Victorian...they all seem to be so smarmy. Maybe it's just Anne Perry's view of the world.
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Read in January, 2008
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William and Hester are newly-weds and their relationship is more interesting to me as a reader than the plot. Hester's knowledge of war and medicine from her experience in the Crimea make her more suited to be a nurse in the our century than in her own repressive Victorian era. Monk tries to give her her due as an intelligent woman but still wants his meat pie on the table when he comes home from a hard day detecting.
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