K. Schatzhauser Books

The twenty-fourth breathtaking mystery from master of crime Anne Perry

In Victorian England, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt venture into an Anglican church to find out who murdered a pretty advocate of Darwin's theories

Despite Thomas Pitt's success in the Whitechapel case, the secretive Inner Circle prevent his returning to Bow Street police as Superintendent. Pitt's next task for Special Branch is to investigate Charles Voisy - the corrupt Inner Circle man Pitt defeated in court - who is standing for election as a Tory MP. Pitt must obtain information to stop Voisy's climb to political power. Then Pitt is ordered to Southampton Row, scene of the hideous murder of a spiritual medium. As the link between the spiritualist and political figures is revealed, the whispers of scandal grow louder. And with Charlotte in hiding for safety, Pitt must turn to his sister-in-law, Emily, to help him solve one of his most high-profile cases yet...

It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he though it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the epistomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave her for someone skinny! He's just abandoned, leaving Claire with a newborn baby, a broken heart, two extra stone and an-er-birth canal ten times its normal size. In the absence of any better offers, Claire goes home to her family. To her beautiful sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And in a story that's both hilarious and bitter-sweet, Claire get better. A lot better. In fact so much better that when James slithers back into her life he's in for a bit of a surprise.

Ein mysteriöser Mordfall in der Sagrada Familia führt Inspektor Munárriz auf die Spur der Tempelritter und ihrer Geheimnisse. Eine tote Restauratorin und ein geheimnisvoller Code entblättern eine Geschichte, die bis zu Antonio Gaudí und einem gefährlichen Erbe reicht, das tödliche Konsequenzen hat.

Inspektor Pitt wird durch seine Zeugenaussage in einen Mordprozess in politische Intrigen verwickelt. Als seine Frau Charlotte ihm zur Seite steht, werden die Zusammenhänge klarer, doch sie ahnen nicht, welche Abgründe sich vor ihnen auftun.