CHRISTMAS ODYSSEY, A by Anne Perry - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Anne Perry.In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the
authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made
her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation.
Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the
blessed light of the holiday.
Ten days before Christmas, as an
icy wind cuts through London, wealthy James Wentworth feels not joy but
grief. His reckless son, Lucien, has been lured into a deadly world of
drugs and wild passion. Wentworth’s only hope, he believes, is his old
friend Henry Rathbone, who volunteers to search for the prodigal son.
Rathbone knows nothing of the sensation-obsessed underworld where Lucien
now dwells, but he acquires two unexpected new companions who do:
Squeaky Robinson, a reformed brothel-keeper who now works in Hester
Monk’s medical clinic, and Crow, a mysterious slum doctor who turns no
one away, however undeserving.
Slowly this odd trio gathers
clues—about Lucien’s mad infatuation with a beautiful woman named Sadie,
and about Shadwell, the ruthless man who owns her and, like the Devil,
never lets go of one of his own. Rathbone, Squeaky, and Crow even
welcome into their little band a most valuable recruit: young Bessie, a
teenager whose courage holds fast even in the depths of the slum. And so
they set forth on their odyssey into London’s dark streets, on a
mission whose outcome they cannot begin to guess.
Anne Perry’s novels are supreme masterpieces of suspense, and A Christmas Odyssey
ranks with the very best. The days leading up to Christmas may prove to
be fraught with challenges, but ’tis the season for comfort and joy and
miracles.