Slaves of Obsession
William Monk Series, Book 11
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Narrated by:
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Simon Jones
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Written by:
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Anne Perry
About this listen
The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton’s armaments. Soon Monk and Hester’s forebodings are fulfilled as one member of the party is brutally murdered and two others disappear– along with Alberton’s entire inventory of weapons. As Monk and Hester track the man they believe to be the murderer all the way to Washington, D.C., and the bloody battlefield at Manassas, Slaves of Obsession twists and turns like a powder-keg fuse and holds the reader breathless and spellbound. . . .
©2012 Anne Perry (P)2012 Random HouseWhat the critics say
“When it comes to the Victorian murder mystery, no one can top Perry...this is one of her best." (San Francisco Examiner)
“Luxuriant...It's E.M. Forster spliced with Thomas Harris.... Perry is a master.” (The Baltimore Sun)
"Scenes are brilliantly etched.... [Perry is] the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christie.”(Chicago Sun Times)
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- pigletbunny
- 2023-04-05
Mostly very good, but 1 morally reprehensible thkng
Ok; this book’s performer has managed to produce some of the best fake-American accents I’ve heard in an audiobook for quite a while.
However, I cannot recommend this book at all, because in writing it the author has chosen to commit a morally-reprehensible act. How? She has created a character who is an enthusiastic citizen of the Confederate States of America, who continually insists that the Civil War is about the rights of individual states to have control over their own laws, NOT about slavery. In addition, this character is portrayed as being a very likeable and honourable person, worthy of Monk and Hester’s ongoing friendship, admiration, and partnership in very important activities. This is an extremely irresponsible and morally hideous act of the author; it is a great help to racists and their work of spreading hate. Just one example of the tons of things that prove this is: the Museum of the Confederacy (located in the former White House of the Confederacy) contains many authentic Confederate documents (such as the Provisional Constitution of the Confederacy) plainly saying that the Confederacy’s entire purpose was to be able to continue owning other human beings, a.k.a. slaves. (The museum‘s longtime curator has publicly confirmed that saying the American Civil War was about states’ rights was [and is] a lie, and the citizens of the Confederacy knew very well that it was a lie, both when they said it and when their leaders did.)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-02-27
Good mystery
Really like this series….actually any book by Anne Perry is good if you like early period murder mysteries
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Lois Robbins
- 2023-11-16
Too short
Compared to her other books, it seems to have come to an end too quickly?
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