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Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes. Cries for revenge ring out. Despite no evidence against him, British orderly John Tallis is arrested simply because he was unaccounted for at the time. Young lieutenant Victor Narraway is chosen to defend Tallis, and his superiors merely want a show trial. But a stubborn faith in justice inspires Narraway to search...
Author
Series
Language
English
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When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When junior lawyer Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he only knows that the victim is a senior lawyer from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? The firm's head, Marcus fford Croft, may know more than he admits, but fford Crofts's memory is not what it used to be. Daniel finds his path blocked by officials at every turn, his investigation so...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, has traveled with husband Joshua Fielding and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula first touched English soil in the sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of the book, but the project is a disaster. Then a black-cloaked stranger emerges from a snowstorm who turns out to be a theatrical genius. But at the same time, a brooding evil makes itself...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A superintendent in the Thames River Police, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he and his men notice a young couple standing at the railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman places her hands on the man's shoulders. Is it a caress or a push? He grasps her. To save her or kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunges to death in the icy waters. Has Monk witnessed an accident, a suicide, or a murder? The ensuing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In July of 1917, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister, Judith, struggle to cope with the devastation of World War I while their brother Matthew searches for the sinister figure known as the Peacemaker who is trying to stop Britain from winning the war.
11) The fourth enemy
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark--and dangerous--secrets.. Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named second prosecutor on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his--and the firm's--reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections. Vayne's philanthropic efforts paint him a hero in the eyes of the...
12) Triple jeopardy
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's a mole in the Special Branch who's trading British secrets and it's up to Thomas Pitt to investigate. While he's dismayed at having to investigate his own men, he's even more appalled when he discovers he can't trust any of them. Meanwhile, Pitt's boss learns a retired spy could have unearthed secrets that could lead to war. Pitt helps him resolve that problem.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Commander Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called to the scene of a brutal explosion in the heart of London. The bomb was set off during an important--and secret--police raid, killing several officers, and the government suspects anarchists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist attack meant to sow chaos, but a calculated means to commit a targeted murder. And the evidence trail leads...
15) Seven dials
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
(book club ed)
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
519 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith struggle to bring peace to the Western Front in the final days of World War I while their sibling, Matthew, brings startling news from a sinister ideologue who may undermine their efforts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when her good friend’s daughter, Millie, turns up on her doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves, Gracie knows she has to find out what is happening. Millie, whose mother died years before, can’t risk being accused of theft and getting...
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