Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 26
Betrayal at Lisson Grove
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 314
- ISBN-13
- 9780755376803
- Type
- novel
About this book
Betrayal at Lisson Grove (2011), the twenty-sixth novel at 314 pages, followed Buckingham Palace Gardens after a three-year gap, continuing the Special Branch-era plotting that has come to define Thomas's later career. Charlotte's social maneuvering, by this stage in the series, functions as a deliberate professional asset rather than an improvised one.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Betrayal at Lisson Grove is book 26 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Buckingham Palace Gardens. It is followed by Dorchester Terrace. See the full Charlotte and Thomas Pitt reading order.
Thomas Pitt is a Metropolitan Police inspector of unusually good education for his working-class rank, which lets Anne Perry send him convincingly into the drawing rooms of Victorian high society whenever a murder implicates the respectable classes rather than the criminal ones. He marries Charlotte, a gentry-born woman who married beneath her station for love and who investigates alongside him -- through her own social access, her sister Emily's even higher connections, and her elderly relative's old-fashioned…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780755376803