Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $20 (383p) ISBN 978-0-449-90637-8
In this surpassingly excellent historical and psychologically intricate mystery, the fourth to feature ``inquiry agent,'' William Monk, former policeman in Victorian England, Perry ( Defend and Betray ) makes deft use of history to cast additional...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-43328-2
In her 21st novel featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, Edgar Award-winner Perry pulls out the stops and delivers one of the finest performances of her career. Four years after the Ripper terrorized London, Thomas's testimony in a murder case is...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-43326-8
At the start of Perry's latest Victorian page-turner (after The Twisted Root), London-based private detective William Monk agrees to attend a dinner party at the lush home of arms dealer Daniel Alberton only for the sake of his wife, Hester. Hester,
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43327-5
Set in Oscar Wilde's London in 1891, Perry's new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown,...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-43325-1
In this 10th entry in the popular series featuring prickly English investigator William Monk and his equally prickly bride, nurse Hester Latterly (A Breach of Promise, etc.), Perry mulls over the moral justification of criminal acts. Just back from...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-345-43298-8
History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry's popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $25 (389p) ISBN 978-0-449-90845-7
The 18th case for turn-of-the-century London policeman Thomas Pitt offers Perry's guaranteed entertainment, although without the full depth of last year's Ashworth Hall. Now in command of the Bow Street station, Pitt is sent to the home of prominent
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $24 (373p) ISBN 978-0-449-90844-0
Having mastered all the elements of top-notch historical fiction and mystery plotting, Perry adds high political drama to her Victorian-era Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. When prominent Irish Catholics and Protestants meet at Ashworth Hall to...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-91078-8
The byzantine politics and aristocratic squabbles of a small German principality called Felzburg exasperate and puzzle William Monk in his seventh distinctive appearance (after Cain His Brother). Monk, a Victorian-era ""agent of inquiry,"" is still...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $21.5 (374p) ISBN 978-0-449-90638-5
Nurse Hester Latterly, who served courageously in the Crimean War and has assisted former policeman William Monk in many of his investigations (the last, A Sudden, Fearful Death), is charged with murdering a patient for personal gain. Hester hires...
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Anne Perry, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $11.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0822-2
Departing from her usual Victorian milieu (the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series and the William Monk series), Edgar-winner Perry has concocted a neat tale of survival and revenge at novella length, set in revolutionary France. It's the summer of...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $22.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-449-90847-1
In her sixth William Monk mystery, Perry evokes early Victorian London with her usual skill, although the novel is somewhat hampered by an awkward plot element. Genevieve Stonefield comes to Monk for help, believing that her missing husband, the...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $20 (374p) ISBN 978-0-449-90569-2
In the riveting 13th adventure of Victorian police Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, Perry ( Belgrave Square ) reshuffles her deck of series characters while adeptly weaving in themes of anti-Semitism and abuse of the law. When appeals...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $18 (385p) ISBN 978-0-449-90755-9
In Perry's third mystery set in Victorian London, military hero Thaddeus Carlyon falls from the top of a staircase and is impaled on a suit of armor below--an ignoble end to a distinguished career and a definite damper to the dinner party he had...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $18 (330p) ISBN 978-0-449-90554-8
Murder in an aristocratic London household pits Inspector William Monk, first encountered in The Face of a Stranger , against the Victorian sense of propriety, a bootlicking superior officer and a family's fierce determination to protect its...
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Anne Perry, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-04266-0
With a steady hand at dissecting character and motivation, a keen grasp of social history and a flair for description of Victorian London, Perry guarantees a good read to those who like their murder in a believable historical and psychological...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $18 (330p) ISBN 978-0-449-90567-8
Having temporarily abandoned Victorian police inspector Thomas Pitt and his highborn wife, Charlotte, in her last, highly acclaimed novel, The Face of a Stranger , Perry features the duo once again. She exhibits her customary skill in recreating...
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Anne Perry, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-01824-5
Inspector Thomas Pitt, Anne Perry's gentle and astute hero of eight other Victorian mysteries, assumes a secondary role in this complex, gripping and highly satisfying mystery. High officials in the Foreign Office wish to reopen the unsolved murder...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $17.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-449-90530-2
Branching out from her popular Victorian London sleuthing team, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte, Perry ( Cardington Crescent ) introduces another exemplary ``Peeler'' (as in Bobby Peele, the first ``bobby''), detective William Monk, in...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53670-9
Set in Victorian England, bestseller Perry’s entertaining, if flawed, 19th William Monk novel (after 2012’s A Sunless Sea) poses a complicated moral question. The Thames River policeman’s wife, Hester, can’t help wanting to assist Josephine Raleigh,
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425284-98-8
Queen Victoria needs the help of Thomas Pitt, who now commands Special Branch, in Perry’s autumnal 32nd mystery featuring Pitt and his wife, Charlotte (after 2015’s Treachery at Lancaster Gate). The monarch, who is nearing the end of her life, asks...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-101-88638-0
Metaphysical concerns weigh down bestseller Perry’s unsatisfying 14th Christmas-themed mystery (after 2015’s A Christmas Escape). In 1900, Victor Narraway, the former head of London’s Special Branch, gives his wife, Vespasia, a trip to Jerusalem, a...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-88635-9
In bestseller Perry’s workmanlike 22nd William Monk novel (after 2015’s Corridors of the Night), the Victorian-era Thames River Police commander, who suffers from amnesia caused by a carriage accident years earlier, is baffled why a customs officer,
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-39138-1
More thriller than mystery, Perry’s melodramatic 21st William Monk Victorian historical (after 2014’s Blood on the Water) focuses on the Thames River policeman’s wife, Hester, a skilled nurse tested in battle during the Crimean War. While filling in
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-39135-0
Threats to a religious radical become Thomas Pitt's problem in bestseller Perry's 30th historical featuring the Pitt husband-and-wife sleuthing team (after 2014's Death on Blackheath), one of the series' better entries. Sofia Delacruz, an...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-54843-6
Bestseller Perry’s 20th William Monk Victorian historical (after 2013’s Blind Justice) opens with a powerful scene. Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, witnesses an explosion aboard a pleasure boat, which rapidly sinks. Despite his heroic...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $18 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-345530-75-2
Set in December 1868, Perry's well-crafted 11th Christmas-themed mystery (after 2012's A Christmas Garland) features a character from her William Monk series. Claudine Burroughs volunteers at the clinic for sick or injured prostitutes run by Monk's...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-54838-2
A truly unusual mystery distinguishes bestseller Perry’s 29th Victorian puzzle featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (after 2013’s Midnight at Marble Arch). The local police call on Thomas, who’s still adjusting to his relatively new role as head of...
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Anne Perry, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-312-00113-1
Perry's Victorian sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his redoubtable wife Charlotte returnafter Death in the Devil's Acre and Bluegate Fieldsto poke holes in the stiff fabric of London's high society. While Thomas works on a case involving a murdered
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-53666-2
Sexual violence is at the heart of bestseller Perry’s engrossing 28th Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel (after 2012’s Dorchester Terrace), set in 1896 London. Pitt, the new head of Special Branch, and his ousted predecessor, Victor Narraway, are about
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $18 (176p) ISBN 978-0-345-53074-5
A particularly strong plot distinguishes bestseller Perry's 10th Christmas mystery (after 2011's Christmas Homecoming). In India in 1857, unrest over the oppressive minority rule of the East India Company has come to a head, with thousands of...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-51064-8
At the start of Perry’s searing 18th William Monk Victorian historical (after 2011’s Acceptable Loss), repeated screams prompt Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, to start rowing for shore. He disembarks at Limehouse Pier, where he...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-51062-4
Scotland Yard’s Thomas Pitt worries about his fitness as head of Special Branch, a post he officially assumes in early 1896, in bestseller Perry’s suspenseful 27th novel featuring Pitt and his wife, Charlotte (after 2011’s Treason at Lisson Grove)....
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $18 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-52463-8
Perry’s fine ninth Victorian Christmas mystery (after 2010’s A Christmas Odyssey) takes Caroline Fielding, the mother-in-law of Insp. Thomas Pitt of Scotland Yard (the lead of Perry’s main series), to the town of Whitby, in York, where Dracula came...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $25.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-345-45656-4
This powerful and intense third novel in Perry's WWI series (after 2004's Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family's anguished search for the ""Peacemaker,"" a shadowy figure responsible for their parents' murders two years earlier, and now...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-46927-4
Carnage comes early in Perry's engrossing Victorian historical, the follow-up to Seven Dials
(2003), when Special Branch investigator Thomas Pitt is summoned in the middle of the night to the aftermath of a bombing, the work of unknown...
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Anne Perry, Author Shadow Mountain $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57345-536-7
Less a fantasy than an extended allegory about the dissemination of God's word to mankind, this ambitious, engrossing novel by the author of the acclaimed Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mysteries (The Twisted Root, Forecasts, Aug. 23, etc.)...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $26 (312p) ISBN 978-0-345-46931-1
The detecting and diplomatic skills of Thomas Pitt, now assigned to the Special Branch, are tested as never before in bestseller Perry's solid 25th novel to feature the Victorian sleuth (after 2005's Long Spoon Lane
). In 1893, the discovery of a...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $17.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-345-48582-3
Mystery author Perry returns to holiday fare (after last year’s A Christmas Secret
) and sends rumpled London policeman Runcorn to a lonely Welsh island for Christmas, where he gets pulled into the case of the murder of Olivia Costain, the...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $21.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-345-45660-1
The depth and passion of Perry's fifth and final volume in her acclaimed WWI series won't disappoint readers who have followed this engrossing and moving tale from its inception with No Graves as Yet
. In the last days of the war, the...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $21.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-345-45658-8
Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings: Joseph, a chaplain working with...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $16.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-345-48581-6
Perry's latest short Christmas novel is a well-written if unsurprising period mystery, set in late 19th-century England. Reverend Dominic Corde and his wife, Clarice, are at a turning point in their lives; a chance opportunity has given Dominic...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-345-46929-8
William Monk faces special challenges in bestseller Perry's absorbing 15th novel to feature the Victorian policeman (after 2005's The Shifting Tide
), as he must convince skeptical fellow officers of his competence to lead the corruption-ridd
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $16.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-345-48380-5
Charlotte's tetchy Grandmama from Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries does a bit of sleuthing on her own (and learns the true meaning of Christmas) in the author's latest holiday treat (A Christmas Visitor
). When the London lady
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $18 (210p) ISBN 978-0-345-50203-2
Bestseller Perry's sixth Christmas novel (after 2007's A Christmas Beginning
), one of the stronger entries in the series, explores further mysteries of the soul. A few weeks before Christmas, 1895, Emily Radley, the sister of Charlotte...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45654-0
In this excellent sequel to 2003's No Graves As Yet
, bestseller Perry continues the exploits of the Reavley children, who lost their parents in a devastating car crash that proved to be no accident on the eve of WWI. The implications of that...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-44009-9
The strain of publishing two major novels a year continues to show in bestseller Perry's 14th historical to feature private inquiry agent William Monk and his wife, Hester, despite the fresh start for Monk, who has recovered from the amnesia...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ace $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-441-01089-9
Five hundred years after the events of Tathea
(1999), the time has come for the final showdown between Light and Dark in this unengaging sequel from mystery bestseller Perry (No Graves as Yet). Tathea, granted immortality to carry the teachings of...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45652-6
This absorbing mystery/spy thriller, set in tranquil Cambridge just before the onset of the Great War, marks a powerful start to bestseller Perry's much anticipated new series. In a lush and deceptively peaceful opening scene, college professor...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44007-5
In her 23rd Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (after 2002's Southampton Row), Perry uses a pending economic crisis to good effect. Now firmly ensconced in his job with Special Branch, Thomas looks into the murder of a junior...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44005-1
Bestseller Perry's latest novel (after 2001's Funeral in Blue) to feature mid-Victorians William Monk and his wife, Hester, offers an ingenious and baffling plot, compelling characters, both major and minor, plus plenty of courtroom drama,...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-44003-7
Newcomers to Perry's series about Victorian police officer Thomas Pitt might be baffled by all the backstory from 2001's The Whitechapel Conspiracy
in this 22nd entry, but loyal fans should hit the ground reading. Bounced from his beloved...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44001-3
From the enormously popular and hard-working Perry comes her 11th Victorian mystery featuring Hester and William Monk, to the certain delight of her faithful admirers. In the studio of a London artist, two women have been murdered, one of them the...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $18 (193p) ISBN 978-0-345-51066-2
While bestseller Perry doesn't offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008's A Christmas Grace
), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-449-90849-5
In this latest William Monk tale (after The Silent Cry, 1997), Perry offers her strongest indictment yet of Victorian England and a society ""where beauty and reputation were the yardsticks of worth."" Barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone defends Killian...
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-449-90848-8
Although lacking the panache of last year's Weighted in the Balance, William Monk's eighth outing adds to Perry's convincing yet disturbing picture of early Victorian London. Hired to find men whose evening entertainment runs to raping and beating...
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Anne Perry, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1507-0
Continuation of the Henry Monk series set in Victorian London, in which the detective is hired by a woman who thinks her missing husband may have been murdered by his brother. (Nov.)
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $21 (392p) ISBN 978-0-449-90636-1
In addition to being a splendidly plotted yarn, Perry's 14th Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery, following last year's Farrier's Lane , explores the nature of power while adding detail and color to Perry's ever more elaborate tapestry of late-19th...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $7.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1037-2
Murder in an aristocratic London household pits Inspector William Monk against the Victorian sense of propriety, a bootlicking superior officer and a family's fierce desire to protect its reputation. Perry's first Monk novel, The Face of a Stranger ,
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Anne Perry, Author Ivy Books $7.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1562-9
Victorian amnesiac sleuth William Monk's seventh appearance has him working to clear Countess Zorah Rostova of murder charges. (Oct.)
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Anne Perry, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1383-0
Perry staple character Nurse Hester Latterly is accused of murdering and robbing a patient. (Oct.)
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Anne Perry, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1283-3
In this excellent historical mystery, Victorian detective William Monk investigates the suspicious death of a young English nurse. (Oct.)
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-449-22227-0
In her 12th mystery featuring Victorian police inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife, Charlotte, Perry once again weaves social history and a well-plotted puzzle to moving effect. Here the pair investigate the murder of a back-street usurer. (
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-449-22350-5
This compelling Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel set in fin de siecle London involves the discovery of a series of decapitated corpses. (Mar.)
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-449-21914-0
London policeman Thomas Pitt and his well-born, well-educated wife, Charlotte, investigate the Westminster Bridge murders of politically dissimilar, personally unrelated members of Parliament. According to PW , ``Perry guarantees a good read to...
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Anne Perry, Author Fawcett $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-90635-4
The 16th Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery demonstrates Perry's trademark skill for enhancing well-designed mystery plots with convincing historical settings and cleverly drawn relationships among characters. In this outing, Pitt, last seen in...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $27 (518p) ISBN 978-0-345-50065-6
A battle between 13th-century religious factions forms the crux of this interesting departure for mystery novelist Perry (A Christmas Promise
). Disguised as a eunuch, physician Anna Zarides arrives in Byzantium to learn why her brother has been...
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Anne Perry, Author . Ballantine $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-46933-5
Set in 1864, bestseller Perry's outstanding 16th novel to feature William Monk (after Dark Assassin
) finds Monk suffering from a series of hard knocks, including memory loss. Now superintendent of the Thames River Police Force, Monk is on the...
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Anne Perry, read by Ralph Lister. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-7251-6
In Perry’s latest novel set in Victorian England, William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, is investigating the murder of a smalltime crook. But his inquiries soon uncover widespread corruption, child prostitution, and eventually more...
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Anne Perry, Author, David Colacci, Read by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59600-281-4
Colacci proves a fine choice as narrator of Perry's latest mystery. In this 15th William Monk adventure, the detective has barely settled into his new position as superintendent of the Thames River Police when he witnesses a young couple fall to
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Anne Perry, Author, David Colacci, Read by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-739-0
Audio Reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FICTIONFUNERAL IN BLUEAnne Perry, read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, eight cassettes, 11 hours,
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Anne Perry, Author, David McCallum, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52710-0
Prolific mystery author Perry (Bedford Square) explores the changing mores and social constraints of turn-of-the-century Victorian England in her latest novel featuring London police superintendent Thomas Pitt. Testament to his extensive stage (Amade
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Anne Perry, Author, David McCallum, Read by , read by David McCallum. Bantam $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52789-6
Having provided enough damaging testimony to convict a man of murder would seem a triumph of investigative police work. However, in this instance, the man sent to the gallows is a member of the Inner Circle, "those men who had secret loyalties...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28501-5
Set in the summer of 1870, bestseller Perry’s skillful 23rd William Monk novel (after 2016’s Revenge in a Cold River) opens with the Thames River Police commander’s arrival at a riverfront warehouse, where Hungarian businessman Imrus Fodor lies dead,
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-425285-07-7
One day in December 1896, octogenarian Mariah Ellison, the sensitive, fully fleshed-out star of bestseller Perry’s exceptional 15th Christmas-themed mystery (after 2016’s A Christmas Message), receives an unusually heavy Christmas pudding at her...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17988-4
Set in 1910, bestseller Perry’s series kickoff introducing attorney Daniel Pitt fails to impress, in part because Daniel, the son of the stars of the author’s Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series (Murder on the Serpentine, etc.), is a much less...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-17991-4
In Edgar-finalist Perry’s riveting 24th William Monk novel set in Victorian England (after 2017’s An Echo of Murder), an attorney approaches the Thames River police commander on behalf of Harry Exeter, an affluent man whose wife was abducted in...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-17994-5
Bestseller Perry’s 16th Christmas-themed mystery (after 2017’s A Christmas Return) is disappointingly unsophisticated. Worm, a nine-year-old orphan in 1860s London, is thunderstruck by a woman he spots on the street, who was “like sudden sunshine on
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-62095-2
Bestseller Perry’s so-so sequel to 2018’s Twenty-One Days, likewise set in 1910 and featuring London attorney Daniel Pitt, offers some intriguing plot twists but little more. A visit to London from Daniel’s sister, Jemima, and her family, who live...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-62098-3
In 1933, British photographer Elena Standish, the heroine of this promising series launch from bestseller Perry (the William Monk series), travels to Amalfi, Italy, to take pictures of delegates to an economic conference. One night at her hotel,...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525621-01-0
Set in Victorian England, bestseller Perry’s 17th Christmas mystery (after 2018’s A Christmas Revelation) is less rewarding than others in the series. Victor Narraway, from the author’s Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series, who has stepped down as the...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-12952-4
An underdeveloped lead and a familiar setup mar bestseller Perry’s uneven third early 20th-century legal thriller starring Daniel Pitt (after 2019’s Triple Jeopardy). Daniel, a young lawyer who’s the son of the author’s longtime series leads, Thomas
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-12955-5
At the start of bestseller Perry’s excellent sequel to 2019’s Death in Focus, likewise set in 1933, Peter Howard, of British Military Intelligence, offers fledgling British spy Elena Standish, a gifted photographer who’s fluent in German and Italian,
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-12958-6
Set in December 1872, bestseller Perry’s talky 18th Christmas novel focuses on John Hooper of the Thames River Police and his new wife, Celia, last seen in 2018’s Dark Tide Rising. Celia is distressed to learn that Clementine Appleby plans to wed...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-15933-0
Set in 1911, bestseller Perry’s middling fourth mystery featuring London attorney Daniel Pitt (after 2019’s One Fatal Flaw) opens with Daniel identifying a dead man in a police morgue as Jonah Drake, a colleague in his law firm. Drake’s slashed...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-15936-1
Bestseller Perry’s routine third novel featuring British photographer-turned-spy Elena Standish (after 2020’s A Question of Betrayal) takes Elena to Washington, D.C., in 1934 to visit her grandparents, Dorothy and Wyatt Baylor, who are celebrating...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-15939-2
At the start of bestseller Perry’s slight 19th Christmas mystery (after 2020’s A Christmas Resolution), Gracie Tellman, a former servant to the author’s best-known leads, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, gets an unexpected visitor, Millie Foster. Millie,...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-35873-3
In bestseller Perry’s subpar fifth early-20th-century mystery featuring London attorney Daniel Pitt (after 2020’s Death with a Double Edge), Daniel agrees to defend history professor Nicholas Wolford, with whom he studied at Cambridge, on an assault
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-35907-5
Set in 1934, bestseller Perry’s underwhelming fourth novel featuring photographer turned spy Elena Standish (after 2021’s A Darker Reality) finds Elena tapped by Peter Howard, her boss at MI6, for a vital mission. Howard plans to smuggle two German...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-35910-5
Bestseller Perry’s fine 20th Christmas-themed crime novel set in the same Victorian world as her William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books (after 2021’s A Christmas Legacy) features Dr. Crowe, an idealist who runs a free medical clinic on the
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-35912-9
Set in 1912, bestseller Perry’s strong sixth Daniel Pitt novel (after 2021’s Three Debts Paid) finds London barrister Daniel facing major changes in his professional life. The head of chambers, Daniel’s father-in-law, has decided to retire, and a...
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Anne Perry. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-35915-0
Elena Standish returns (after 2022’s A Truth to Lie For) for a delectable mystery that sees the photographer turned MI6 agent infiltrating a family of aristocrats in 1930s England. When MI6 agent John Repton is found shot to death near the Wyndham...
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