Reviews for Twisted Root

The average rating for Twisted Root based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-19 00:00:00 Jose Silva I"m on an Anne Perry jag - reading one novel after the other and rather enjoying it too! A bit of of sequence and read the one below a few years ago. The story before this dealt with opium and this ones with another ugly hidden secret of the rich and famous toward their servants. Here's my latest: I am a fan of Anne Perry's mysteries series as this one with William and Hester Monk set in Victorian England. The whole setting, language, fashion styles, social and political happenings and all the uglies of the time is found in her writings. Proper (high) society to the dredge of the beyond what we know now, poverty and somewhere in between. Ms. Perry addresses crime within the era and in fact, society does continue to have it in 2013. Sometimes the harshness of the reality of what is done is disturbing and if the writer didn't have such memorable characters and lay out the story as she does, I might turn from it. I don't. This story is about murder, of course, and a court trial - as most of Ms. Perry's novels include- and the horrific lies told to keep an "image" and how that image is supported by high society. A woman engaged to a younger man from a wealthy family disappears with the family's footman who later is found killed. The woman is sought up one alley and down the other. Did she murder him or know who did? The young man can't believe his small fiancee would do that, nor will you believe who and why it was done. I like Anne Perry - not all are five stars though - and will continue to read to keep up with the unfolding of the Monks and all the other characters I've grown to like or not, but continue to be interested in.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-12 00:00:00 Daniel Diletti These mysteries are impossible to solve and almost impossible to put down because most of the way through the book, yo have literally no idea how it can be solved! Actually in this one I did get an inkling before the end. I was pleased with the amount of time given to William and Hester and their marriage- not too much. I felt a bit sorry for the barrister character.