NATIONAL BESTSELLER
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Perry's Dorchester Terrace.
The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives seconds after the knife-wielding assassin�who, in turn, flees on an erratic course that leads Pitt in wild pursuit to picturesque St. Malo on the French coast. Meanwhile, Pitt�s supervisor, Victor Narraway, stands accused of embezzling government funds. Since the man who ruined Narraway�s career is in Ireland, Pitt�s clever wife, Charlotte, agrees to pose as Narraway�s sister and accompany him to Dublin to investigate. But unknown to Pitt and Narraway, a shadowy plotter is setting a trap that, once sprung, could destroy not just reputations but the British empire itself.
Review
Praise for Anne Perry�s most recent Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels
Buckingham Palace Gardens
�An intricate plot about a murder at the palace [with] an irresistibly appealing Upstairs, Downstairs perspective . . . a fine introduction to Perry�s alluring world of Victorian crime and intrigue.��The New York Times Book Review
�Another winner . . . a wonderful cast of characters with many twisting plots.��Vero Beach Press Journal
Long Spoon Lane
�Anne Perry has once again delivered the tasty concoction her readers have come to expect [and] presents us with moral and political puzzles that are all too close to our own.��Los Angeles Times Book Review
�An altogether intriguing and enjoyable mystery . . . Fans of this series, with its amazingly well-drawn historical details, know the delight of time traveling back to Victorian England.��Bookreporter.com
Seven Dials
�Terrific, vivid stuff . . . The alarmingly prolific Anne Perry [is] a master of the genre.��The Seattle Times
�Perry�s as good as it gets. . . . The final courtroom scene produces more victims and left me breathless.��The Providence Journal
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane, and the William Monk novels, including Execution Dock and Dark Assassin. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as seven holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Odyssey, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.