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Charlotte Ellison ist intelligent, selbstbewusst und emanzipiert. Sie lebt im puritanischviktorianischen England des 19. Jahrhunderts, in einer Zeit, in der diese Eigenschaften bei Frauen gar nicht gern gesehen werden. Doch Charlottes Eltern machen sich aus einem weiteren Grund Sorgen um ihre Tochter. Ein offenbar geistesgestörter Mörder stranguliert auf der Cater Street junge Frauen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass auch sie sich in Gefahr befindet, ist es fast zu spät.

En una elegante calle londinense se perpetra un horrendo crimen: Fanny, una joven de diecisiete años, es violada y asesinada brutalmente. El caso se asigna al inspector Pitt quien, como en otras ocasiones, se sirve de su perspicaz y aristocrática esposa Charlotte para penetrar en el hermético mundo de la alta sociedad, donde tras la fachada de respetabilidad encontrarán un enrarecido ambiente: supersticiones, vampiresas insaciables, alcohólicos, presuntos suicidios... y hasta ritos satánicos.

It is 1910, and the century is full of change. Sir Thomas Pitt, Head of Special Branch, has persuaded his son, Daniel, to take on his first case as a newly qualified barrister. Having successfully defended his client and made a lifelong friend, Daniel is summoned to the Old Bailey to assist in the defence of renowned biographer Russell Graves, who is accused of the brutal murder and disfigurement of his wife. When the jury finds him guilty, Graves is sentenced to be hanged in 21 days. Graves insists he has been framed....

En una cloaca de los barrios bajos de Londres aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una adolescente. Para sombro de todos, la identificación revela que se trata del primogénito de una aristocrática familia. Cuando el inspector Pitt y su esposa Charlotte inician la investigación, tropiezan con las reticencias de los padres del muchacho, decididos a impedir que se aireen ciertas cuestiones escabrosas.

William Monk faces an old enemy determined to take revenge for an act committed many years ago - before he lost his memory. Anne Perry's outstanding new historical mystery takes us on a thrilling ride into Monk's past, as adversaries he cannot remember threaten everything he holds dear.

Death might be commonplace in 1857 at the Royal Free Hospital in London's Gray's Inn Road, but murder certainly isn't. When the body of Prudence Barrymore, a gently bred, dedicated and passionate nurse, is discovered stuffed into a laundry chute, no-one - high born or low - can be beyond suspicion.

Dark Tide Rising is the 24th compelling mystery in the William Monk series, from the master of Victorian crime, New York Times best-selling author Anne Perry. When Kate Exeter is kidnapped on the shore of the Thames, Commander William Monk is enlisted by her desperate husband to save her. Kate's captors are demanding a ransom for her safe return, and Monk and his most trusted men must arrange a secret handover in the dark slums of Jacob's Island.

El aristocrático clan de los Moidore, una de las mejores familias de Londres, a cuya mansión de Queen Anne Street acuden los más encumbrados personajes, nunca se había visto en vuelto en el escándalo. Ahora, sin embargo, la bella hija de sir Basil ha aparecido apuñalada en su propia cama y la noticia corre de boca en boca por la ciudad. El inspector William Monk recibe la orden de encontrar al asesino sin demora, aunque evitando causarle mayores trastornos a una familia ya abrumada por la tragedia.

Cuando el general Thaddeus Carlyon, insigne veterano del Imperio de Su Majestad, muere en una elegante fiesta londinense, nadie sospecha que se trate de un asesino. Sin embargo, la bella esposa del general, Alexandra, se confiesa autora del crimen, lo que causará una profunda conmoción en la aristocracia victoriana. El detective William Monk trabajará incansablemente junto a Oliver Rathbone, su colaborador habitual y abogado defensor de Alexandra Carlyon, para conseguir salvar la vida de la acusada.

Am vornehmen Callander Square werden bei Gartenarbeiten die Leichen von zwei neugeborenen Babys gefunden - ein Skandal. Das wird ein Fall für Inspector Thomas Pitt. Doch die Ermittlungen gestalten sich schwierig, da die elitären Anwohner Thomas Pitt skeptisch gegenüberstehen. Die Herrschaften des viktorianischen London versuchen die Ermittlungen zu vereiteln, so gut es geht.

It is May 1911 when Daniel Pitt is summoned to a murder scene in the slums of London's East End. He fears the victim is his friend Toby Kitteridge, but relief is quickly followed by dismay when Daniel identifies the dead man as Jonah Drake, a distinguished senior barrister who has been killed with a double-edged sword. But what was Drake doing in Mile End? And does their head of chambers, Marcus Fford Croft, know more than he is willing to admit? With the police holding out little hope of finding Drake's killer, Daniel and Kitteridge rise to the challenge.

Anne Perry stands tall not only for earning her place among the world's most widely read mystery writers, but as the author of the longest sustained crime series by a living author. When it comes to literary fiction in the mystery genre, no one does it better than Anne Perry. Her expertise and warmth come through strongly in this, her second master class of writing: Plotting to Enrich Your Back Story. The writing journey continues with a comprehensive discussion of what constitutes the heart of fiction: back story and plot.

London, 1870: The body of a Hungarian immigrant is found dead in what appears to be a ritualistic killing, with a bayonet through his heart, his fingers broken and his body surrounded by 17 blood-dipped candles. At first Commander William Monk of the Thames River Police suspects the killer is from within the community, but when another murder takes place, Monk fears the immigrants are being targeted by an outsider.... Meanwhile, Hester is reunited with a doctor who had been left for dead on a Crimean battlefield.

Primera Guerra Mundial, marzo de 1916, Joseph Reavley, gravemente herido en el intento de rescatar a un compañero durante el combate, es enviado a casa, en Cambridgeshire, para recuperarse al lado de su hermana Hannah. La inesperada visita de un amigo común los involucra en un invento que podría neutralizar el efecto devastador de los submarinos alemanes, así como el asesinato de uno de los científicos implicados en el mismo.

Joseph Reavley recibe la visita inesperada de su hermano Matthew, quien le anuncia la fatídica muerte de sus padres en un accidente. A su dolor se suma el desasosiego debido a que, la noche anterior, Joseph había revelado a su hijo que estaba en posesión de un documento que iba a cambiar la historia de Inglaterra para siempre. Matthew y él habían decidido encontrarse en Londres para discutir sobre el tema, pero nunca tuvieron la oportunidad de hacerlo.

Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband, Patrick, a policeman, and their young daughters. But Patrick's trip has another purpose, for which he enlists Daniel's help. Philip Sidney, a young British diplomat, is accused of robbery and assault in Washington, but he has taken diplomatic immunity and fled to England. The perfect opportunity to obtain justice presents itself when Sidney is accused of a small embezzlement at the British embassy in the USA, but as Daniel digs deeper into the case it becomes clear that vengeance is involved.

Anne Perry's Inspector William Monk: in search of justice, he will not stop until he has found the truth...Oliver Rathbone, William Monk's close friend, has presided brilliantly over his first cases as a judge. But the next will bring a far greater challenge. Abel Taft, a charismatic minister adored by his congregation, stands accused of terrible corruption and fraud which has ruined the lives of those he's betrayed.In court, each victim affirms Taft's guilt, but when the defence's star witness tears their stories apart, the case seems lost.

It is 1933, and Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish is on assignment in Amalfi when she meets Ian Newton, a charming Englishman with whom she falls in love. But what does she really know about him? Accompanying him on a train across Italy to Paris, she finds him critically stabbed and dying. He tells her he is a member of Britain's Secret Service, on his way to Berlin to warn MI6 so that they can foil a plot to assassinate one of Hitler's vilest henchmen and blame Britain for it, thus causing a devastating diplomatic crisis.

Algo grave sucede para que Thomas Pitt haya sido convocado con tanta urgencia por el jefe de los servicios secretos británicos. La noche anterior, un joven y prometedor diplomático fue asesinado en el jardín de una mansión londinense: la residencia de la misteriosa amante egipcia de un importante ministro del gabinete. Y pese a sus protestas de inocencia, acaba de ser detenida por homicidio. ¿Por qué un caso que solo debería interesar a la policía y, en principio ya resuelto, requiere investigación extraoficial llevada con la máxima discreción?

It is 1910, and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another charged with his murder. Convinced of his innocence, Jessie Beale begs barrister Daniel Pitt to defend the accused. It's a hopeless case - unless Daniel can find an expert witness, whose testimony on fire damage is so utterly convincing that any jury would believe him. Daniel's friend Miriam Ford Croft was taught by formidable forensic scientist Sir Barnabas Saltram, who has built his reputation on giving evidence of this kind.