What inspired you to write your William Monk series and to create the character of Oliver Rathbone?ĪP: Monk wakens in hospital with absolutely no memory of himself, even his own face in the mirror is unrecognisable to him. MC: Your series featuring the Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife, Charlotte, which started with The Cater Street Hangman, has been described as “the longest sustained crime series by a living writer.” The main character in your Monk novels, which appeared first in 1990, has a much darker protagonist than this first series. No, I would definitely not like to have lived then the plumbing, the medicine and the dentistry in particular, would put anyone off. The responsibilities and the burdens and delusions of power open up infinite possibilities.
The entire world is on the door-step at one time or another. You can have almost anyone live there or pass through. At that time London thought itself the centre of the world, and for good reason. The inventions are fascinating, sometimes ludicrous, always imaginative. Would you have liked to live during that period?ĪP: It fascinates me for its dramatic contrasts of wealth and poverty side by side. MC: Victorian Britain obviously fascinates you.
Anne Perry, who has sold over 26 million novels worldwide since 1979, talks about the inspiration for her novels and her series of Christmas novellas.
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