In the debut of the New York Times –bestselling Victorian crime series, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society.Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swoll...

Return to the "exemplary Victorian company" of this London sleuthing couple with books four through six in the long-running New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times )."For nearly four decades Anne Perry's riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era" ( The Washington Post). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy m...

Enjoy the "exemplary Victorian company" of this London sleuthing couple with books seven through ten in the long-running New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times )."Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood" ( San Francisco Chronicle). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy more ...

Return to the origins of the Victorian-era sleuthing couple with the first three mysteries in the "unfailingly rewarding" New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times Book Review )."For nearly four decades Anne Perry's riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era" ( The Washington Post). Now in a single volume, readers ca...

A Victorian-era mystery by the New York Times– bestselling author whose "novels attain the societal sweep of Trollope or Thackeray" ( Booklist, starred review).When her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with a compromising picture, neither Charlotte Pitt, nor her mother, has any idea that the locket may be at the center of a bizarre chain of events leading to murder....

Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this "superior" mystery from the New York Times –bestselling author of Twenty-One Days ( The San Diego Union-Tribune ).When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and...

A killer strikes on a posh London street in this novel from the New York Times bestseller that "combines murder with . . .[the] manners of Victorian society" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) .When innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite sister-in-law, Jessamyn, Inspector Pitt is assigned to investigate her rap...

Inspector Pitt is charged with murder in this "gripping and highly satisfying" entry in the New York Times –bestselling Victorian mystery series ( Publishers Weekly ).At the behest of his superior, Thomas Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered in his home in London's exclusive Hanover Close. P...

Inspector Pitt follows a trail of corpses to solve a crime in this Victorian-Era mystery from the New York Times– bestselling author of Death on BlackheathLord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the m...

From a New York Times– bestselling author, members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge in this "sterling" novel set in Victorian London ( Library Journal ).In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. In...

The sleuthing couple pursues a serial killer through Victorian London in an exciting entry in the "unfailingly rewarding" New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times ).A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil's Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer's grisly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The...

From a New York Times– bestselling author, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must solve the case of a young gentleman's murder—before an innocent man hangs.The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London's most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually violated and infected with...