Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Buckingham Palace Gardens, Book 25, (Paperback)

from muzzie

To begin with, having read most of her books, I must admit Anne Perry is one of my favorite authors. Buckingham Palace Gardens is the latest of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt late Victorian detective series. Thomas, once a police superintendent, continues in his role at Special Branch investigatin...

from PatienceFortitude

Why haven't I read Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books before? Victorian era mysteries, right in (one of my) sweet spots. I'm told that it's better to read the series in sequence to see how the relationships develop, but I think I had enough fun reading this that I don't mind reading out...

from rosstrowbridge

One of the challenges of a long-running series is how to make each book complete and independent, so that a new reader lacks nothing, without boring established readers with repetition of everything that has gone before. I was struck by Perry's craft in handling this, as Thomas Pitt, a detective ...

from jamespurcell

Starts rather cumbrously by having to introduce Pitt into the Buckingham Palalace world to solve the murder of a prostitute during one of the Prince of Wales' "nights with the boys" Anne Perry's insights into rythyms, nuances, and inequalities of gender and class in the Victorian world combine wi...

from jarvenpa

The satisfying thing about Anne Perry's books is her sense of character and the nuances of class during the 19th century British period she covers. I tend to prefer the Monk novels to the Pitt ones, simply because I like Monk's complicated character, but this one gives Gracie, the Pitt's maid, a ...