An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
One of her best, Hester reunites with her brother Charles I foresee him playing a more active role in future books, along with his ward, Candace.
When Crow needs help talking to a Hungarian patient he sends Will (formerly known as Scruff) to fetch someone and he comes back with Dr. Fitzherbert (Fitz) who not only translates for them but stays to help with several patients. He knew Hester in the Crimea and is pleased to meet Scruff and renew his acquaintance with Hester who feels tremendous guilt because she left him for dead on the battlefield.
Meanwhile Monk is investigating several grisly murders in the Hungarian community. Limited by his inability to read or speak the language he has to rely on Dobokai (who found the first victim) to translate. But for some reason Dobokai makes Monk uneasy but since he has an alibi for the first murder Monk puts his suspicions aside. But then a mob of angry Hungarians corner Fitzherbert who is covered in blood and Monk has to arrest him in order to protect him. Determined to prove his innocence Monk goes back over the evidence and discovers that Roger Haldane killed the first man after learning that Fodor slept with is wife and Fathered the son she bore. But that still leaves three of the murders unsolved.
Rathbone is giving his usual brilliant defense but it is Charles and Candace's suggestion that some news triggered the other 3 murders that has them scouring Hungarian newspapers and uncovering the scandal revolving around a mathematics teacher and the sexual favors he demanded of certain students in exchange for giving them high marks. Once they have a motive it's easy for Monk to guess that it was Dobokai that killed the other 3 men and used his photographic memory to recreate the first murder scene that he discovered. When Rathbone questions him on the witness stand Dobokai takes his own life rather then face the disgrace and charges his murderous rampage would bring him.
Charles offers to give Fitz a home until he recuperates.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
One of her best, Hester reunites with her brother Charles I foresee him playing a more active role in future books, along with his ward, Candace.
When Crow needs help talking to a Hungarian patient he sends Will (formerly known as Scruff) to fetch someone and he comes back with Dr. Fitzherbert (Fitz) who not only translates for them but stays to help with several patients. He knew Hester in the Crimea and is pleased to meet Scruff and renew his acquaintance with Hester who feels tremendous guilt because she left him for dead on the battlefield.
Meanwhile Monk is investigating several grisly murders in the Hungarian community. Limited by his inability to read or speak the language he has to rely on Dobokai (who found the first victim) to translate. But for some reason Dobokai makes Monk uneasy but since he has an alibi for the first murder Monk puts his suspicions aside. But then a mob of angry Hungarians corner Fitzherbert who is covered in blood and Monk has to arrest him in order to protect him. Determined to prove his innocence Monk goes back over the evidence and discovers that Roger Haldane killed the first man after learning that Fodor slept with is wife and Fathered the son she bore. But that still leaves three of the murders unsolved.
Rathbone is giving his usual brilliant defense but it is Charles and Candace's suggestion that some news triggered the other 3 murders that has them scouring Hungarian newspapers and uncovering the scandal revolving around a mathematics teacher and the sexual favors he demanded of certain students in exchange for giving them high marks. Once they have a motive it's easy for Monk to guess that it was Dobokai that killed the other 3 men and used his photographic memory to recreate the first murder scene that he discovered. When Rathbone questions him on the witness stand Dobokai takes his own life rather then face the disgrace and charges his murderous rampage would bring him.
Charles offers to give Fitz a home until he recuperates.
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