A deeply touching tale

Meurtre en écho by Anne Perry

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I am writing this review still calming my emotions after the incroyable finale.

Encore Mme Bertrand nous a livré un livre de Anne Perry en une traduction plus que fascinante. Moi je parle le Français couramment et je suis bilingue avec mon Allemand natal et l'Anglais Brittonique, donc normalement je préférerais lire l'original.

With this series, though, I read the first book in French and was more than just surprised by the fact, that a week after my lecture I could not tell, whether I had read the book in French or English. The atmosphere was so clear in my mind, everything so English ...

In this case the uncommonly high quality of the writing was met by an equal ability to translate and I really enjoyed reading the complete series up to this volume in French. The plot is - if anything - even more complex than the rest of the series and we touch upon the horrors our female heroine, the nurse Hester Latterly, the now wife of William Monk, has experienced during her time with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war.

Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" doesn't quite describe the horrors those few courageous young women, the orderlies, doctors and soldiers had to face and live with the experience. Anne Perry gives us a glimpse here and it is nothing for the faint hearted. But ... it is an excellent book and and well worth the tears you will not be able to repress in certain scenes.

Like all her books in the series our heroes and heroine come out victorious, the expectation of that fact helped me through some of those scenes. Five stars certainly are not enough for this book and its Traductrice!



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