Funeral in Blue ~ Paperback ~ Anne Perry

Two beautiful women have been found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife, Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is the wife of Hester s cherished colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who becomes the prime suspect. With an intensity born of desperation, the Monks seek evidence that will save Dr. Beck from the hangman. From London s sinister slums to the crowded coffeehouses of Vienna, where embers of the revolution still burn in the hearts of freedom-loving men and women, Hester and Monk seek to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck s death but the riddle of her life."Author BiographyAnne Perryis the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including"Blind Justice"and"A Sunless Sea," the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including"Death on Blackheath"and"Midnight at Marble Arch."She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as eleven holiday novels, most recently"A New York Christmas, "and a historical novel, "The Sheen on the Silk, "set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland and Los Angeles."