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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.

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.

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....

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.

The 29th novel in Anne Perry's highly acclaimed crime series featuring Inspector Thomas PittGreenwich,1897. A macabre scene is discovered outside a house on Shooters Hill. There has been a vicious fight, and amid the bloodstains are locks of long auburn hair. Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called: this is the home of Dudley Kynaston, a minister with access to some of the government's most dangerous secrets, and any inquiry must be handled with utmost discretion.

Es octubre de 1918 en el Frente del Oeste. El capellán Joseph Reavley lleva cuatro años en las terribles trincheras de Flandes. Aun así, se siente incapaz de afrontar la visión del cuerpo mutilado de la enfermera Sarah Price. En medio del horror y de la muerte, alguien ha violado y asesinado a la joven. Y para estupor de Joseph, acusan del asesinato a su hermano Matthew, agente de los servicios de inteligencia británicos.

Elena Standish, a young English photographer working for British Intelligence, is sent on her latest mission to Berlin, where painful memories of her escape from the Gestapo come flooding back. With the help of another spy, she must rescue a renowned scientist and return to England unscathed. But, as rumours start to spread of germ warfare, Elena and her family know she must act quickly to save lives.

When a heart attack forces Marcus fford Croft to retire from his chambers, his daughter Miriam and son-in-law Daniel are relieved that he is stepping down and handing over to Toby Kitteridge. But Daniel and Toby are concerned that their new recruit, who is a brilliant barrister with a penchant for taking risks, could jeopardise their hard-won reputation. Daniel's old friend Inspector Ian Frobisher then alerts him to the fact that one of England's most influential newspaper tycoons, Malcolm Vayne, is about to be arrested for fraud.

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.

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.

Elena Standish, a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence, is visiting her grandparents' home in Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. A lavish party is held to mark her grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary, and Elena takes pride in capturing the event on camera, but when the beautiful wife of a renowned scientist is found murdered in the driveway, allegedly run over by Elena's grandfather's car, Elena's world is turned upside down.

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare. British agent Elena Standish must return to Berlin to prevent unimaginable horror and, with the help of her trusted friend, Jacob Ritter, embark upon a mission fraught with fear and uncertainty.

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.

Un hecho insólito sacude las calles de Londres: varios cadáveres exhumados aparecen en distintos puntos de la ciudad. El inspector Pitt sospecha que esta macabra profanación de tumbas no es obra de un simple psicópata, sino una cortina de humo para desviar la atención de la policía. El cadáver de un tal Godolphin, pintor de cierta fama, despierta de manera especial su interés; por lo visto, es el único que no murió por causas naturales.

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.

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....

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.

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.