Unconventional Charlotte Pitt and her husband, Inspector Pitt, encounter the challenging problem of a series of gruesome grave robbings in Victorian London
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‘Well observed period detail, a fascination with miscarriages of justice and the high drama of the law’
Robert McCrum
‘Perry has a wonderful feel for period and remails utterly convincing’
Guardian
It was the most incredible thing: a corpse sitting in an empty hansom cab – and it wasn’t just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, it was sheer lunacy. Whoever would want to unearth a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond
The doctor insisted that the death had been natural. But there was certainly nothing natural about any of this as far as the police were concerned. And Inspector Pitt was determined to unearth the truth – even if the digging could kill him...
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