Seven Dials: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel: 23 - Softcover

Perry, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345523717 ISBN 13: 9780345523716

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2011

Synopsis

Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt's orders are to protect--at all costs--the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. The distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha's lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself. Pitt's journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials--and ultimately to a packed London courtroom in which shocking secrets will at last be revealed.

About this title

Review:

"Terrific, vivid stuff . . . Prolific Anne Perry [is] a master of the genre."--The Seattle Times

"Intricately layered . . . The visual panorama is voluptuous to behold."--The New York Times Book Review

"Perry's as good as it gets. . . . The final courtroom scene produces more victims and left me breathless."--Providence Journal

"Captivating . . . offers an added dollop of historical interest, immersing both Pitt and the reader in the intrigue and seething atmosphere of Egypt."--Spartanburg Herald-Journal

"One of the best [novels] that Perry has written."--The Historical Novels Review

Book Description:

The twenty-third brilliant mystery in the acclaimed Thomas Pitt series

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0345523717
• ISBN 13: 9780345523716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368