SOURCE: A review of The Silent Cry, in Los Angeles Times, November 23, 1997, p. E2.

In the following excerpt, Kaufman praises Perry's The Silent Cry, stating that "[the denouement is shocking, and the characters are so richly drawn that you'll miss them when they're gone."]

… Anne Perry's new Victorian thriller, The Silent Cry, featuring surly amnesiac investigator William Monk and feisty nurse Hester Latterly, is the author's best effort in a couple of years.

Leighton Duff, a respected solicitor, is found beaten to death in St. Giles, a festering slum "only a stone's throw from Regent Street in the heart of London." Lying beside him, barely alive, is his brutally beaten son, Rhys. The pair are discovered by John Evan, Monk's only friend on the police force. Were they attacked by local ruffians while out for an evening's whoring? Is the widow involved? While Evan struggles to come up...