«Anne Perry is my choice for today’s best mystery writer of Victoriana.»
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Murders just didn’t happen in fashionable areas like Callander Square-but these two had. The police were totally baffled. But pretty, young Charlotte Ellison Pitt was curious.

Inspector Pitt’s well-bred wife didn’t often meddle in her husband’s business, but something about this case intrigued her-intrigued her to the point that suddenly, staid Charlotte Pitt was rattling the closets of the very rich, hearing backstairs gossip that would shock a barmaid, and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder…

«Murder fans who prefer their crimes with a touch of class should heat some scones and nestle back for the afternoon.»
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution