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En Los cadáveres de Callander Square, el inspector Pitt y Charlotte Ellison forman ya pareja, tanto en la vida como en las investigaciones policiales. El nuevo caso de Pitt se inicia con el hallazgo de dos recién nacidos enterrados en una elegante plaza londinense. Al iniciar las investigaciones, Pitt choca con el rechazo del distinguido vecindario, reacio a airear sus oscuros secretos ante un simple policía, y es Charlotte quien, aprovechando su aristocrático origen, debe hurgar bajo el caparazón de respetabilidad de las clases altas.

One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying. While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk.

1273. Arriving in Byzantium, physician Anna Zarides resolves to prove the innocence of her brother, now in exile for conspiring to kill a nobleman. Unable to move freely in society as a woman, Anna must pose as a Eunuch and use her medical skills to manoeuvre close to the players involved in her brother’s fate. But time to find the truth is running out. A crusade to capture the Holy Land is brewing, and leaders have set their sights on Constantinople.

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.

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.

Loyal, honest and, above all, principled. There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt.It is 1896, and Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. He is beginning to understand the power he now commands, but is still ill at ease at the glittering events he and his wife Charlotte must attend.

En julio de 1917, tras cuatro años de guerra, el agotamiento se está adueñando del capellán Joseph Reavley y de su hermana Judith, miembro del Cuerpo de Ambulancias.

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.

Daniel Pitt is defending an old college professor from Cambridge who has been accused of plagiarism, when a series of brutal murders occurs on the streets of London. The rainy-day slasher, as the crazed killer becomes known, violently attacks his victims in the pouring rain and then removes one of their fingers before leaving the bodies.

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.

Als es William Monk endlich gelingt, Jericho Phillips zu fassen, glaubt er an die sichere Verurteilung des perversen Verbrechers...

It is mid-December and Henry Rathbone travels to the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. But despite the festive season and the beautiful surroundings, this is not a happy occasion; he is going to comfort the family following the death of his friend, the master of the house. It seems that Judah Dreghorn slipped while crossing a stream in the grounds of the estate in the middle of the night, and drowned. And, when Henry arrives, he finds that there is more than a widow's grief to contend with....

Following the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss in Vienna, Elena Standish is enlisted by MI6 in London to travel to Trieste to rescue her former lover, Aiden Strother. Aiden left her broken-hearted several years ago, and she vowed to have nothing more to do with him, but MI6 chief Peter Howard explains that Aiden was acting undercover at the time and is a loyal British double agent....

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.

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.

London, 1899: Head of Special Branch Commander Thomas Pitt is summoned to Buckingham Palace. In the twilight of her years, Queen Victoria is all too aware that the Prince of Wales will soon inherit her empire and must be beyond reproach. She tells Pitt she tasked her close friend and confidant, John Halberd, with investigating the Prince's friends, specifically Alan Kendrick, a wealthy playboy and betting man, but before he could report back Halberd was found dead in a rowing boat on the Serpentine.

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.

London, 1910: Der junge Daniel Pitt, Sohn des berühmten Sir Thomas Pitt, nimmt seinen ersten großen Fall als junger Anwalt an. Russell Graves soll seine Ehefrau kaltblütig ermordet haben. Alle Indizien sprechen gegen ihn, die Verteidigung ist auf verlorenem Posten. Und tatsächlich wird Graves schließlich im ehrwürdigen Strafgerichtshof Old Bailey zum Tod durch den Strang verurteilt. 21 Tage Galgenfrist bleiben Daniel, um doch noch die Unschuld seines Mandanten zu beweisen. Eine Unschuld, an die er selbst kaum glaubt.

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.

Daniel Pitt, Sohn des berühmten Ermittlers Sir Thomas Pitt, gerät als Anwalt in einen zweiten gefährlichen Fall. Sein Schwager fleht ihn an, gegen den Botschaftsangestellten Philip Sidney vorzugehen. Dieser habe in den USA eine Frau überfallen und sei dann unter dem Schutz diplomatischer Immunität an die Themse geflohen. Als ein wichtiger Tatzeuge ermordet aufgefunden wird, wird Sidney auch wirklich der Prozess gemacht – doch ausgerechnet Daniel Pitt wird als sein Verteidiger bestellt. Allerdings entdeckt Daniel bald, dass hinter dem Verbrechen tatsächlich jemand ganz anderes stecken könnte. Jemand, der einen gewaltigen Umsturz plant.