Author:
Perry, Anne.
Imprint:Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 2015.
Note:Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of herNew York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night,nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide.The monomaniacal Rand brothersMagnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemistare ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for what was then known as the fatal white-blood disease." In London's Royal Naval Hospital annex, Hester is tending one of the brothers' dying patients,wealthy Bryson Radnor,when she stumbles upon three weak, terrified young children, and learns to her horror that theyve been secretly purchased and imprisoned by the Rands for experimental purposes.But the Rand brothers are too close to a miracle cure to allow their experiments to be exposed. Before Hester can reveal the truth, she too becomes a prisoner. As Monk and his faithful friendsdistinguished lawyer Oliver Rathbone and reformed brothel keeper Squeaky Robinson among themscour Londons grimy streets and the beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hesters time, as well as the childrens, is quickly draining away.Taut with intrigue and laced with white-knuckled terror, Corridors of the Nightis Anne Perry at her magnificent, unforgettable best.
Note:Unabridged.
