Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New 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 brothers -- Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist -- are 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 they've 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 friends -- distinguished lawyer Oliver Rathbone and reformed brothel keeper Squeaky Robinson among them -- scour London's grimy streets and the beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hester's time, as well as the children's, is quickly draining away.

Taut with intrigue and laced with white-knuckled terror, Corridors of the Night is Anne Perry at her magnificent, unforgettable best.

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night. A William Monk Novel. Ballantine, ISBN: 9780553391404 (September, 2016), 271 p., $16.00.

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
The 21st exceptional historical thriller featuring William and Hester Monk, from the master of Victorian crime
One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying.

While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk. Attempting to protect the young victims, she comes under threat from one rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive...

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night. When their own lives are at risk, some people will do anything to survive... An Inspector William Monk Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472219473 (September, 2015), 320 p., £7.99.

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New 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 brothers -- Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist -- are 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 they've 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 friends -- distinguished lawyer Oliver Rathbone and reformed brothel keeper Squeaky Robinson among them -- scour London's grimy streets and the beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hester's time, as well as the children's, is quickly draining away.

Taut with intrigue and laced with white-knuckled terror, Corridors of the Night is Anne Perry at her magnificent, unforgettable best.

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night. A William Monk Novel. Ballantine, ISBN: 9780553391381 (September, 2015), 271 p., $27.00, eBook $13.99.

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
The 21st exceptional historical thriller featuring William and Hester Monk, from the master of Victorian crime
One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying.

While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk. Attempting to protect the young victims, she comes under threat from one rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive...

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night. When their own lives are at risk, some people will do anything to survive... An Inspector William Monk Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472219480 (April, 2015), 320 p., £19.99.