The Sins of the Wolf

Hester Latterly is hired to care for an elderly woman making a trip from Edinburgh to London. When she dies on the train, Hester is charged with murder as she was the person who administered a lethal dose of medicine. It's up to Monk to travel to Edinburgh and discover who the real murderer is.
I've been a little disappointed with the last two books in the series (although I enjoyed them) because Monk didn't seem to be central. Here, once again, Monk is at the center of the book, as arrogant and acerbic as ever. He regains a little more of his memory, but the murder mystery is the central plot and it was satisfyingly mystifying.
I enjoyed the setting of Edinburgh, being very familiar with the city. Ms. Perry captures the flavor of the show more old town and new town very well. I sympathized with Oliver Rathbone's inability and frustration at not being able to defend Hester; Scotland has different rules than English law. I also liked the subtle changes in the relationship between Hester and Monk.
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Engrossing read because of the character development and the author's real skill at painting word pictures. The mystery itself became too convoluted by the end. There was no need for quite so many unrelated family secrets. However, the courtroom scenes are, as usual in this series, extremely interesting reading. But Monk the private detective, and Hester, the war nurse now on trial for her life, became even more of an enjoyable team by the end. The tension between them is acute, but I hope in the next books they drop some of the quarreling. Looking forward to the next.

Another good book by Anne Perry featuring William Monk, although Hester Latterly is center-stage through a large portion of the story. I enjoyed the mystery and usually can work out at least some of the puzzles. However, I do find the portions of the narrative when Monk, Hester, and Oliver Rathbone muse about their feelings for each other to be clunky and repetitive. It seems there should be a better way to weave those thoughts and feelings into the flow of the story.

I really enjoyed this mystery especially. As usual she ties up all the loose ends very close to the end of the book and while I had an inkling of what and why the murder was committed, some of the background facts were not what I had thought of.

I am really enjoying the William Monk series, this novel was the most gripping yet as a well-loved character was in danger. As expected Monk gets to the bottom of it and the end result was rather surprising. I usually read one of these books, then take a break with a modern chic-lit style read before returning to the next, after this novel I cracked on to the next one straight away!

This book was more intense even than the other four because of the horrors experienced by Hester through the judicial system. Monk and Oliver are frantically trying to find the answers to save her. The Farraline family has many secrets that are finally revealed. I’ve been to Edinburgh and so I could picture the setting very easily.

Hester Latterly knows Monk but they don't seem to get along. Hester takes a job that takes her to Scotland to accompany an elderly woman from a prominent family while she travels to London. The woman takes medication helped by Hester on the train. In the morning, the woman is found dead and a piece of her jewelry is found in Hester's luggage. The trial takes place in Scotland with Monk desperately seeking information pointing to a member of the family. I used to read this series and a second series by this same author and liked them. I still like them, but find them somewhat overblown.