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Cuando el general Thaddeus Carlyon, insigne veterano del Imperio de Su Majestad, muere en una elegante fiesta londinense, nadie sospecha que se trate de un asesinato. Sin embargo, la bella esposa del general, Alexandra, se confiesa autora del crimen, lo que causará una profunda conmoción en la aristocracia victoriana.

Cambridge, Inglaterra, semanas previas al estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Joseph Reavley recibe la visita inesperada de su hermano Matthew, quien le anuncia la fatídica muerte de sus padres en un accidente. A su dolor se suma el desasosiego debido a que, la noche anterior, Joseph había revelado a su hijo que estaba en posesión de un documento que iba a cambiar la historia de Inglaterra.

Desde un barco en el Támesis se encuentra anclado, el robo de un cargamento de marfil y uno de los marineros a bordo serán asesinados. Un caso difícil de William Monje, sobre la base de los hábitos y las costumbres de los marineros del puerto y sólo los ocupantes acostumbrados muss.A cargamento de marfil es robado de un buque, y un marinero en la noche de vigilancia ha sido brutalmente asesinado. Un nuevo caso de William monje.

Sir Arthur Desmond, mentor du commissaire Thomas Pitt, est retrouvé mort dans un club londonien. Accident ? Suicide ? Son fils n'y croit pas et demande à Thomas d'enquêter. Pendant ce temps, au ministère des Colonies, un traître divulgue à l'Allemagne des informations sur la politique anglaise en Afrique. Or Desmond travaillait aux Affaires étrangères et avait porté des accusations contre le gouvernement au sujet des colonies. Les suspects : un groupe d'hommes très influents et fort soucieux de leur réputation. C'est alors que le corps d'une aristocrate londonienne est découvert dans la Tamise... Thomas Pitt et sa femme Charlotte vont risquer leur vie dans cette intrigue qui mêle souvenirs, amitié et affaire d'Etat. C'est toute l'expansion de l'Empire qui est en jeu. La " reine " du polar victorien nous entraîne de nouveau, avec jubilation, dans une époque dont elle connaît tous les secrets.

"Scenes [are] described in lush, sensuous strokes by Ms. Perry. . . . Monk, the dark and brooding hero . . . infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul." —The New York Times Book Review. When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German principality was murdered by his wife, the woman who was responsible for his exile twenty years before. Though private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly, manage to establish that the prince was indeed murdered, as events unfold the likeliest suspect seems to be Countess Zorah herself. . . . "THE DENOUEMENT IS UNEXPECTED AND INGENIOUS." —Los Angeles Times "Perry serves up as arresting an opening as ever." —Kirkus Reviews A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILD®

No Graves As Yet is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War.

A thriller set in and around the insidious area of London known as Seven Dials: a warren where seven narrow streets collide - and where vice, iniquity, and cold-blooded murder are everyday occurrences. Thomas Pitt, mainstay of the London police, confronts a 15-year-old crime that has current lethal repercussions. In her own inimitable style, Anne Perry weaves a page-turning tale of politics, passion and international intrigue set in the heart of Victorian England.

Through Anne Perry' s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war.

Anne Perry gives her fans a marvelous gift: a new yuletide yarn full of light celebration and dark mischief. Dominic Corde is thrilled to "fill the robe" as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Reverend Wynter is away on a three-week Christmas holiday. Glad to escape his dreary London flat and a less-than-satisfying job as church curate, Dominic and his beloved wife, Clarice, set off for what they hope will be a lovely winter getaway. Upon arrival, in the midst of a frigid, exceptionally snowy season, Dominic and Clarice are welcomed by warm, hospitable neighbors and enchanted by the cozy, inviting vicarage. Everything seems almost too perfect. Dominics only concern is how he will be received by the congregation, who hold the Reverend Wynter in such high regard. But as Clarice soon discovers, she and Dominic have much more dire matters to worry about. It turns out that the Reverend Wynter isnt on holiday at all -- and that something very sinister has transpired. As a blizzard leaves Cottisham treacherously snowbound and the isolated village swirls with unsavory secrets, Dominic and Clarice suddenly find themselves in deadly danger.

With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of historys most heartbreaking conflictthe war that was meant to end all warsAnne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English familybrothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Germans but the bitter cold and the appalling casualties at Ypres. Scarcely less at risk, Matthew, an officer in Englands Secret Intelligence Service, fights the war covertly from London. Only Hannah, living with her children in the family home in tranquil Cambridgeshire, seems safe. Appearances, however, are deceiving. By the time Joseph returns home to Cambridgeshire, rumors of spies and traitors are rampant. And when the savagely brutalized body of a weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over the townalong with the shadow of the obsessed ideologue who murdered the Reavleys parents on the eve of the war. Once again, this icy, anonymous powerbroker, the Peacemaker, is plotting to kill. Perrys kaleidoscopic new novel illuminates an entire world, from the hell of the trenches to the London nightclub where a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade; from the sequestered laboratory where a weapon that can end the war is being perfected to the matchless glory of the English countryside in spring. Steeped in history and radiant with truth, Angels in the Gloom is a masterpiece that warms the heart even as it chills the blood.

In Perry's 11th novel featuring Victorian London private investigator William Monk, two beautiful women are found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of a cherished colleague of nurse Hester Monk. When a Viennese migr becomes the prime suspect, Hester and Monk seek evidence to save him from the hangman.

Killian Melville, un joven y brillante arquitecto, va a ser juzgado por romper su compromiso con Zillah Lambert, hija de su patrón. Para su defensa, contacta con el prestigioso abogado Sin Oliver Rathbone quien, al ver que Melville no aporta razones que justifiquen su comportamiento, inicia una investigación con su colaborador, William Monk. Éste deberá indagar en un inidente familiar ocurido dos décadas atrás.

Víctima de un accidente en el que su cochero murió y él resultó malherido, William Monk consigue recuperar la salud, pero no los recuerdos del pasado que la amnesia ha borrado de su mente. Así que cuando se reincorpora al cuerpo de policía y le encargan que investigue el brutal asesinato de Joscelin Grey, se lanza en busca de dos claves: una que ilumine este delicado caso y otra que le ayude a despertar su propia memoria.

M. Gardiner, la prometida de un rico heredero, es la principal sospechosa del asesinato del conductor del carromato en que viajaba. Resulta difícil entender por qué una joven con un brillante futuro cometería un acto similar. El enigma desembocará en los tribunales, donde el abogado O. Rathbone, asesorado por W. Monk y su esposa Hester, deberá invertir toda su sagacidad para defender a una mujer que está dispuesta a aceptar la horca antes que desvelar un secreto del pasado.