★★★¼
GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: underground sewers, dangers for workings
Setting: London, England
CHARACTERS: William Monk, Hester Monk, Sergeant Orme, Mary Havilland, Toby Argyll
DATE READ: September 14 - September 19
NO. OF PAGES: 352
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: yes, Audio stockpile
PLOT:....................................................................3.00
CHARACTERIZATION:.......................................3.00
TOPICS: ...............................................................3.50
STYLE:..................................................................3.50
ORIGINALITY:.......................................................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:..............................................3.00
OWNERSHIP:......................................................3.00
Threshold Quality.................................................3.50
Average..............................................................................................3.19
Monk has decided that the time has come of returning to the police force and has joined the River Police. While patrolling the river, Monk is witness to two young people falling off a bridge and their drownings being unable to reach them before their deaths.
Unsure whether it was a suicide, accident or murder/suicide, Monk investigates finding more dangers than anticipated because of the "apparent" suicide of the victim's father several months previous. Monk must address that death as well bringing him back into connection with Horace Runcorn, his previous superior on the police force.
The interaction between these two characters, the changes in their responses to each other, expanded these characters but other secondary characters (Monk's new subordinates)were left without being fully fleshed out.
Hopefully, the next installment will remedy what was lacking here.
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