Death with a Double Edge

Its place in Daniel Pitt

Death with a Double Edge is book 4 in the Daniel Pitt series. It follows One Fatal Flaw. It is followed by Three Debts Paid. See the full Daniel Pitt reading order.

Daniel Pitt is the son of Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, grown up and working as a junior barrister in London in the years just before and after the First World War, a full generation on from his parents' Victorian cases. Anne Perry moves the series' focus from police investigation to the courtroom: Daniel works for a small, principled law firm and the books are built around trial strategy and cross-examination as much as detection, with his father's old Special Branch connections and his mother's social instincts…