Tag: Anne Perry

  • REVIEW of A Question of Betrayal (Elena Standish #2) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of A Question of Betrayal (Elena Standish #2) by Anne Perry

    See my review for a new spy thriller by Anne Perry set during the prelude to WWII.

  • REVIEW of One Fatal Flaw (Daniel Pitt #3) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of One Fatal Flaw (Daniel Pitt #3) by Anne Perry

    When a distraught young woman begs Daniel Pitt to defend her boyfriend from charges of arson and murder, Daniel is duped into taking a case where his client might in fact be guilty. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, a female scientist in the male-dominated world of 1910 England, for help. Fire is not her…

  • REVIEW of Death in Focus (Elena Standish #1) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of Death in Focus (Elena Standish #1) by Anne Perry

    In the days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a young photographer named Elena Standish travels to Italy to photograph a convention. After meeting a personable young man named Ian, they travel together towards France, only to be thrown into a frightening world of espionage, assassination, and events that seem to hurtle headlong toward the…

  • REVIEW of Triple Jeopardy (Daniel Pitt #2) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of Triple Jeopardy (Daniel Pitt #2) by Anne Perry

    When Daniel Pitt’s sister Jemima returns to England on a visit from the States, her policeman husband Patrick has a perplexing proposition. He asks Daniel to defend a British diplomat on a minor charge of embezzlement to ensure that the man’s real crime of assault (for which he has diplomatic immunity since it was perpetrated…

  • REVIEW of A Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of A Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry

    Worm is a street urchin who has never celebrated a real Christmas. Squeaky, the hard-shelled bookkeeper for a women’s shelter (and reformed brothel-owner) is determined to change that. Scraping together their meager funds, Squeaky plans roast goose, ribbons, tinsel, and gifts for all who will stay at the shelter on Christmas day. But as much…

  • REVIEW of Twenty-One Days, by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of Twenty-One Days, by Anne Perry

    Newly-minted lawyer Daniel Pitt is frantically trying to get a man off for murder when he receives a message from his superiors at the law firm to wrap things up quickly–he’s needed at another more important trial, another murder case that seems even more impossible to win. So begins the first novel in famed novelist…

  • REVIEW of Murder on the Serpentine by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of Murder on the Serpentine by Anne Perry

    I have only read the first several books in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, so it was quite a change to fast-forward ahead to book #32! Instead of being a lowly policeman, Pitt is now the head of Special Branch, a mysterious wing of the government that investigates treason, espionage, and any murders related…

  • REVIEW of The Cater Street Hangman, by Anne Perry

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted a review, but I have not been idle…well, at least, not idle when it comes to reading. I’m nearing the end of my pregnancy, and my body is much happier resting on the couch with a book than doing more strenuous activities like scrubbing the kitchen floor or…

  • REVIEW of The Face of a Stranger, by Anne Perry

    How many people in the real world actually get amnesia so badly that they can’t remember who they are or recall any of the details of their past life? Definitely not as many people as get amnesia in the literary world. Amnesia in books is used as a deus ex machina, an obvious contrivance on…