Death of a Stranger

Publisher Marketing: For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk's clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace - especially since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone's mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiance, an executive in Nolan Baltimore's thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him. As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of the tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia - as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding. Review Citations: Library Journal 09/15/2003 (EAN 9781590862346, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2002 pg. 116 (EAN 9780345458650, Other) Library Journal 06/01/2002 (EAN 9780345458650, Other) Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2002 pg. 116 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Booklist 07/01/2002 pg. 1798 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2002 pg. 1180 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Library Journal 08/01/2002 pg. 151 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/09/2002 pg. 46 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Romantic Times 11/01/2002 pg. 118 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) People Weekly 10/28/2002 pg. 45 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) New York Times 11/03/2002 pg. 22 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2002 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 741 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 711 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 829 (EAN 9780345440051, Hardcover) Criticas 11/01/2010 pg. 1 (EAN 9788498723366, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Perry, Anne Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane, and the William Monk novels, including Execution Dock and Dark Assassin. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as seven holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Odyssey, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland. Contributor Bio:  Colacci, David David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, and has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of Year lists by such publications as "Publishers Weekly", "AudioFile" magazine, and "Library Journal".