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Review title: A Dangerous Mourning
Product review: This second Monk novel ties up some of the strands from 'The Face Of A Stranger' and sees Monk stll coming to terms with his amnesia, and investigating another murder aided and abetted by Hester Latterly. Unfortunately if you've read just a few of Perry's murder mysteries a lot of 'A Dangerous Mourning' will feel very familiar. The same issues and plot contrivances. Like Charlotte Pitt in Callender Square, Hester goes undercover in the murder victim's house. This feeling is exacerbated by the often slow pace of the book, which seemingly has characters going over and over the same details again and again. It's good to see some interesting times ahead for Monk, and Hester's glimmer of romance is handled quite sweetly but this book just feels too routine to really succeed. As part of a series I think it has merit, as a murder mystery it's just a bit dull.
