Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 25

Buckingham Palace Gardens

by Anne Perry

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
312
ISBN-13
9780345504845
Type
novel

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Cover of Buckingham Palace Gardens

About this book

Buckingham Palace Gardens (2008), the twenty-fifth entry at 312 pages, is among the most overtly royal-adjacent titles in the series, following Long Spoon Lane after another multi-year gap. It fits the pattern the synopsis describes of later books moving outward into wider Establishment and royal-adjacent scandal as Thomas's rank rises.

Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

Buckingham Palace Gardens is book 25 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Long Spoon Lane. It is followed by Betrayal at Lisson Grove. 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…

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