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In a sensational feat of the imagination, Anne Perry encloses visitors inside the magic circle of her guru and brings alive the lost planet of England's Victorian Era. Hoofbeats clatter on cobblestones, gaslight glimmers through haze, and within the privacy of sophisticated drawing rooms, effective women and men once more reside the disgrace and elegance of this incomparable period. With The Twisted Root, Perry retains people rapt with a chilling tale of infidelity, love, and consummate evil.As private eye William Monk concentrates to small Lucius Stourbridge beg for assist in investigating his errant girlfriend, he feels a feeling of large foreboding. Miriam Gardiner vanished abruptly from the croquet party in the magnificent Bayswater estate of her in-laws-to-be, and hasn't been observed since.