William Monk Blood on the Water, Book 20, (Paperback)

from bookworminc

William Monk, commander of the River Police, witnesses a pleasure ship explode and sink on the river Thames. Even though he was a witness to the explosion, helped rescue survivors and dived down to view the ship before it was brought back to the surface, the case is taken away from him and given ...

from bg853

I am a long time fan of Anne Perry having read both her Monk and Pitt series since the 1990s. So it is no big surprise that I enjoyed Blood on the Water. Monk, who is now in charge of the Thames River police witnesses the bombing of a pleasure boat on the Thames which takes the lives of two hundr...

from corglacier7

Another entry in the William and Hester Monk series, and one of the better ones of late. I've always enjoyed how the pressure of political and societal realities are brought into the cases, without quite going to the somewhat more impersonal "government conspiracy" levels of the Pitt novels--the ...

from puglibrarian

Blood on the Water is a great follow up (and far better than) to Anne Perry's last book, Blind Justice, taking us back to our main plots and characters, but not abandoning Oliver Rathbone's storyline. The book starts with Monk witnessing a horrible boating accident and as usual, Perry does terror...

from delphimo

I finished this novel yesterday, but wish I had more to read. The story twisted and turned, but as in all the Monk series, the combined efforts of Hester, Monk, and Rathbone find the means to save the day. This story floats on the sinking of a pleasure boat on the Thames in England. The police ca...