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This book did not grab my attention until I was about fifty pages or so into the story. At that point, I became interested, and by the end of the book I enjoyed the story enough that I will definitely continue the series. I liked the character of Pitt, although I didn't feel we learned nearly enough about him, and I enjoyed Charlotte. Some of Charlotte's family was another matter, although I believe they reflected the time period in which the book was set. I thought that the relationship between
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"If you liked Anne Perry and Caleb Carr, you'll LOVE this!" This quote, from the covers of my Gaslight Mysteries series, prompted me to read this book, the first in Anne perry's historical fiction mystery, starring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. This series appears to be very well researched, although much more character driven than the Gaslight Mysteries. This can be both a benefit and a hinderence, because I often felt that the settings so lavishly described in the Gaslight Mysteries would have do
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I enjoyed this start to the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, set in Victorian London. This novel opens in 1881 with the still unmarried Charlotte Ellison. Her elder sister Sarah is married to a man Charlotte has a longstanding crush on, and her younger sister Emily is trying to catch a Lord in matrimony. Their comfortable middle class existence is disturbed before the novel opens when a young lady was garroted to death and her corpse found near them on Cater Street. Over the next few weeks two
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The first book in the William and Charles Pitt mystery series. I've read several of these in the last few months (not in any particular order) so it was interesting to go back and read the first one.
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Charlotte Ellison is not your everday victorian women. She read newspapers and novels she shouldnt, is openly disdainful of the local vicar and is more concerned to soclail injustice then getting marrued. But when young women are being killed on Cater street Charlotte knows that something is very wrong. With the help of controversial Inspector Pitt will they find the killer before Charlotte is the next victim.
I enjoyed this book. It statrs a little slow but gets more interesting. I didnt figure ...more
I enjoyed this book. It statrs a little slow but gets more interesting. I didnt figure ...more
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