"The Sins of the Wolf have come home!" This quote, from the fifth installment of the William Monk Series, "Sins of the Wolf" refers to Dante's inferno. The Lion, The Leopard, and the Wolf in Hell all represent different aspects of sinfulness. Read the engrossing book and discover the "Sins of the Wolf".
Hester is accused of committing the murder of Mary Farralane, the matriarch of a rich and powerful family.
Does the Farralane family havescandalous secrets, all-cause for murder? ( )

Best in Monk series I've read to date

This book was more intense even than the other four because of the horrors experienced by Hester through the judicial system. Monk and Oliver are frantically trying to find the answers to save her. The Farraline family has many secrets that are finally revealed. I’ve been to Edinburgh and so I could picture the setting very easily. ( )

Engrossing read because of the character development and the author's real skill at painting word pictures. The mystery itself became too convoluted by the end. There was no need for quite so many unrelated family secrets. However, the courtroom scenes are, as usual in this series, extremely interesting reading. But Monk the private detective, and Hester, the war nurse now on trial for her life, became even more of an enjoyable team by the end. The tension between them is acute, but I hope in the next books they drop some of the quarreling. Looking forward to the next. ( )

I am really enjoying the William Monk series, this novel was the most gripping yet as a well-loved character was in danger. As expected Monk gets to the bottom of it and the end result was rather surprising. I usually read one of these books, then take a break with a modern chic-lit style read before returning to the next, after this novel I cracked on to the next one straight away! ( )