Anne Perry
Twenty-One Days
Twenty-One Days is the first of Anne Perry’s new crime series. Fans of her Thomas and Charlotte Pitt stories will…
A Christmas Return
Editors' choice
This compact little gem, Perry’s fifteenth Christmas novella, demonstrates her proficiency in writing Victorian-set mysteries. The protagonist is Mariah Ellison,…
An Echo of Murder
This latest installment in the William Monk series resounds with the great Victorian classics, Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,…
Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Commander Thomas Pitt, Head of Special Branch, is summoned to Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria needs Pitt to fully investigate what…
A Christmas Message
Anne Perry’s fans always look forward to her Victorian-era holiday mysteries. They might do well to skip this one. In…
Revenge in a Cold River
Revenge in a Cold River is the 22nd in Anne Perry’s mystery series set in 1860s London, featuring Commander William…
Treachery at Lancaster Gate
Shortly before Christmas 1898, a bomb explodes in a house in a quiet London neighborhood. Two policemen are killed and…
Corridors of the Night
In this, the 21st installment of her bestselling Victorian-era William Monk series, the Thames River Policeman’s wife, Hester Monk, is…
A Christmas Escape
Perry’s thirteenth holiday novella takes a sojourn from her familiar realm of Victorian England over to the small Italian island…
Blood on the Water
Detective William Monk, now of the Thames River Police, witnesses the blowing up of a pleasure boat where 200 people…
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