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.
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