- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; First Edition edition (12 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747216223
- ISBN-13: 978-0747216223
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,537,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in a notorious area of Victorian London's East End, a young girl stumbles across the bodies of two City gentlemen. When Detective John Evan arrives, first he must attempt to identify the victims and then investigate why they were so brutally attacked. From the author of A DANGEROUS MOURNING and SINS OF THE WOLF.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Once again in Victorian England with William Monk, Hester Latterly and Oliver Rathbone and never too much. The prudish and apparently moral bound victorian society hides many devious aspects, among them prostitution. Hipocrisy is the key word and crime could and should be overlooked according to some. Not for Monk and Hester who will find the awful truth beneath the strict rules and the paramount virtue of pretending not to see, not to hear and not to speak. The Silent Cry is all the more powerful because of that.
However, I would like to know how is it possible that Dr. Riley could not find the truth before Hester does at the end of the book. That does not make much sense.
It seems the only flaw in an otherwise extraordinary book where you will be shaken out of your silence.
However, I would like to know how is it possible that Dr. Riley could not find the truth before Hester does at the end of the book. That does not make much sense.
It seems the only flaw in an otherwise extraordinary book where you will be shaken out of your silence.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The William Monk series is generally really entertaining and this was no exception. It was challenging right to the end and a thoroughly good read
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A great, great mystery.
13 May 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I read a LOT of mysteries, and the outcome of this one left me stunned. When you read a mystery, you hope to be surprised by the resolution, and this one rates with the best of Agatha Christie.
If you've never read Anne Perry, this one showcases all that she's capable of.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Best of the Monk series
22 Oct 1997
Format:Hardcover
The Silent Cry is the best so far in Perry's Monk series. The mystery is genuinely mysterious, the period color superb, the characters well-developed and fully realized. The nurse Hester Latterly, Monk himself, and the other returning characters are as engaging and realistic as ever, and Perry's dialogue, as always, sounds like real Victorian people having real Victorian conversations. The book is slightly flawed by some minor incononsistencies in the plot, mostly having to do with the injuries to Rhys Duff, but these are not very troubling. The picture Perry paints of Victorian London and the social issues and manners of the time would make the book worth reading even if it weren't an outstanding mystery.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Believable, compelling and enthralling.
24 Oct 1997
Format:Hardcover
Anne Perry is one of my favorite authors and this is one of her best books. By now, I am more than ready for her hero, Inspector William Monk, to make his mind up about his feelings for Hester Latterly, an independent, non-conformist, and highly likeable nurse who challenges all of Monk's ideas of what (or whom) constitutes the "perfect" woman. Ms. Perry weaves this problem (for Monk anyway) throughout the story and finally provides us hopeless (hopeful?) romantics with a few sops of encouragement. All of the supporting characters are finely and wonderfully drawn (likeable or not) and the attention to detail of the historical period is unmatched. Well worth anyone's time.
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