If there is an author who is devoted profusely to novels around mysteries, enigmas, crimes and other arguments surrounding the total bestseller, that is Anne Perry. Here I leave you a good mystery list, in tune with this incombustible author.
The more than 60 novels by this New Zealand writer, all of them between mystery and the noir genre, evoke a reincarnation of Agatha Christie. But the most curious thing is that, beyond the literary work itself, the Anne perry She lived her own black story, the one that linked her to a crime as a co-author or rather an assistant, when she was only 15 years old.
In search of a sublimation, or perhaps trying to exorcise her demons, Anne immersed herself in the adventure of writing, thus making the most of her indefatigable dedication to the art of storytelling. And with that intensity, Anne Perry has been narrating sagas, series, independent novels…, Always with the horizon of suspense, of the great mystery looming between its pages.
Top 3 Recommended Anne Perry Novels
tides of blood
Some goodbyes are never quite goodbye. From mythical bands that meet years later to characters from stories who are accommodated in unexpected plots. For William Monk, with his countless adventures imagined by Perry, it turns out that nobody wants to take him for granted. But when the possible notice of the closure of his saga has arrived, there is no other choice but to start at the end. Strong adventures ahead.
The wife of Harry Exeter, a powerful and wealthy builder in Victorian London, has been kidnapped and her kidnappers demand that the hostage be handed over in exchange for ransom in one of the most inhospitable and darkest areas on the banks of the River Thames. To protect both Exeter and his wife, Commander Monk is tasked with overseeing the operation. However, upon reaching the meeting place, both he and his companions are ambushed.
It will soon become clear that it is a betrayal by one of his men and to find out who was to blame, he must investigate the past of all of them. This way you will discover who hides a terrible secret and to whom they truly profess their loyalty. Will Monk put his life on the line to solve the case?
A dark sea
With the author's taste for the nineteenth-century in British Isles that evoke intense fogs and killers of legend, this novel transports us to dark mysteries.
Because in the plot the first shady deals come into play, the prelude to current drug trafficking passed through an imaginary along Sherlock Holmes. Only Anne Perry is more interested in the darkest on a political level. Because in those days, too, corruption could dye the daily evolution of society sinister black.
Opium, the first great drug and its booming market. Monk on the trail of deaths that curiously link to that shady business. A woman mutilated and thrown into the Thames from whose appearance Monk will be linking with a parallel reality that it is intended to bury.
Until reaching the pharmacist Lambourn, determined to regulate the traffic of a substance that can be so pernicious and on whose transit the pockets of corrupt and traffickers are filled. He too died, one of those opportune suicides. Silence usually comes with death, only that Monk is willing to do anything to reveal the harsh reality that affects from the filthiest to the most "glorious" of society.
Murder in Kensington Gardens
The Inspector Thomas Pitt series has that great virtue of being built from readings that may well be independent. Each delivery a new separate case. In cases where it is necessary to link to previous works, the author already takes care of relocating all of us, first-time or advanced readers of her saga.
So reading this novel, which may be 25 or 30, does not mean that you should be aware of the above. The point is that it is enjoyed immediately. The relevant thing is that Thomas Pitt beats us from the first scenes. Because when a character is credible, he carries with him all that previous baggage of novels or lives never told in previous plots.
This time we live in the year 1899, again in London. It will be Queen Victoria herself who, with her instinct of a great matriarch about to leave the scene, wants her closest friends to inquire about the life of the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales. Everything is ruined when the investigator appointed by the queen is, in his opinion, assassinated in a covert way. And there only Thomas Pitt can move like nobody else to find out what happened. Always efficient, with lead feet. Only this time the enemy can be very powerful.
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The corpses of Callander Square
The second installment of Inspector Thomas Pitt had an unusual force to be the continuation, with the bad reputation that precedes the second attempts. But as I say, this brilliant exception evokes the best Poe, with its sinister and gothic point.
Because death, once entered among the social strata where life flows more comfortably, always awakens that point of maddening uncertainty. To the point that many of the residents of the noble area where rugged proceedings against a few hours-old babies are discovered, they do not want Thomas Pitt to inquire about the matter. Morality prevailed over truth.
Thomas Pitt against the murderer in charge of ending newborns, but also against a world of appearances that prefer to silence the black voices of their conscience instead of facing the harshness at their noble doors. Pitt will give the witness to Charlotte so that she, going more unnoticed, tries to discover what those dark souls of posh and stale ancestry are hiding.
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