Dark Assassin

Thames River Police Superintendent William Monk witnesses what might be murder, or suicide, or accident: a young couple plunges from Waterloo Bridge into icy water, and the truth of what happened may be buried with them. The woman, Mary Havilland, had been convinced her father was murdered rather than a suicide, and her fiancé's family firm, the Argyll Company, is contracted to build a new sewer system for London that Mary believed was dangerously flawed. Monk must navigate the labyrinth of Victorian power and secrecy to find the truth before it claims more lives.

David Colacci's narration of the William Monk series has become its defining voice, and his performance in Dark Assassin captures both the physical grandeur of Victorian London and the intimate moral world that Perry builds within it. He gives Monk's slow methodical intelligence its appropriate weight, and his voice work in the scenes between Monk and his wife Hester captures the partnership at the heart of the series. At just over thirteen hours, this is a richly atmospheric entry in a long and distinguished series.