Anne Perryβs very special world of mystery, passion, and danger has attracted an entire generation of readers to her bestselling Victorian novels. Treason at Lisson Grove, her first Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel in three years, is a masterpiece, inspired by history and spinning on a razorβs edge o
Midnight at Marble Arch: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
β Scribed by Anne Perry
- Book ID
- 100210601
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2014;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1410457095
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β¦ Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY RT BOOK REVIEWS
In this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where women are too often blamed for the violent attacks against them, and powerful men take what they want, leaving others to pay the price.
The horrifying rape and apparent suicide of Catherine Quixwood, wife of a wealthy merchant banker, falls outside the new jurisdiction of Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, but so pervasively offensive are the rumors about the victim that Pitt quietly takes a hand in the investigation.
Yet even with the help of his ingenious wife, Charlotte, and his former superior, Victor Narraway, Pitt is stumped. Why did high-minded, cultured Catherine choose not to accompany her husband to a grand party on the night...
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