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Anne Perry's spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those displaying William Monk, have enthralled listeners for a technology. The Plain Supplier phone calls Monk "a marvelously dark, brooding creation" - and, true to create, this Perry masterpiece is as deceptively profound and twisty as the Thames. As commander of the River Law enforcement officials, Monk is familiar with violent death, but the mutilated feminine body entirely on Limehouse Pier one chilly Dec morning steps him with horror and pity. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighborhood friends can tell him little - only that the same mysterious gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be considered a prostitute, but - referred to as silent and kempt - she doesn't appear to be a fallen female. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worthy of killing? And just why does the federal government keep interfering in Monk's analysis? While the public cries out for blood vessels, Monk, his spirited better half, Hester, and their outstanding barrister friend, Oliver Rathbone, seek out answers. From dank waterfront alleys to London's fabulously wealthy Western End, the three path an ice-blooded murderer toward the unbelievable, possibly unprovable truth - and in the end employ their adversaries within an electric courtroom duel. But unless they could work a miracle, a monumental bad is going unpunished and an innocent person will hang. Anne Perry has never worn her literary colors with greater distinction than in A Sunless Sea, a heart-pounding novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to help make the hardest decision of his life.
