William Monk
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Inspector William Monk is a fictional character created by the writer Anne Perry and hero of a series of books.
He was born in Northumberland by the Victorian Era, son of a fisherman. He had a coach accident in 1856, after which he lost his memory. As he was a policeman, he had to continue with his investigations, without telling about his lost memory. After the accident he met Hester Latterly(a Crimean War nurse) in unfortunate circumstances. From that day on, Hester and Monk became closer and closer( it took them a long time), as she was the only one who knew about Monk's memory issues. In the second book, A Dangerous Mourning, Monk was fired from the police for insubordination and had to become a private investigator. Lady Callandra Daviott (Hester's best friend) financed his private investigations.
Sir Oliver Rathbone was his love rival(he wanted to marry Hester) and judicial advicer in his cases; finally Hester and Monk got married, and kept solving cases together.
[edit] Personality
William Monk is a clever man, ironic and sarcastic, obstinate and proud, impulsive; most of all, he's got a big problem with authority(the reason why he was fired from the police, and had to become a private investigator), and a strong sense of justice. This qualities help him to solve the hardest cases, as he's got no fear at the moment of facing the implicated people ( no matter who that person is, as in the book A Dangerous Mourning, in which he openly suspects of the members of an aristocrat family instead of blaming the servants)
[edit] The Monk Series
- The Face of a Stranger
- A Dangerous Mourning
- Defend and Betray
- A Sudden Fearful Death
- The Sins of the Wolf
- Cain His Brother
- Weighed in the Balance
- The Silent Cry
- Whited Sepulchres
- The Twisted Root
- Slaves and Obsession
- A Funeral in Blue
- Death of a Stranger
- The Shifting Tide
- The Dark Assassin
