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Summary: What a great beginning to a series
Review: Though Victorian times are a bit stuffy if you can get past that you will have a GREAT read. Kept me on the edge all the way to the SURPRISE ending. WOW! Can't wait to read more.
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Summary: The book that revived the historical mystery.
Review: What plot! What a setting! What characters! Anne Perry started a revolution with this book, the first in her Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (Charlotte is not "Pitt" yet in this book). When murder disturbs the elite and proper world of the Ellison family, the cracks begin to show in the family's heretofore placid exterior. Family members start to look at each other with fear and doubt, and suspicion is as frightening as truth.Perry's depiction of Victorian England is detailed and fascinating--she is as knowledgeable of upper-class life as she is of the working-class. Her characters are realistic and sympathetic, and the kicker of an ending in this book is the sort that has become her trademark. You cannot call yourself a fan of the historical mystery without reading this book.
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