Selected Product: | Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels) Hardcover Edition: 1 Author: Anne Perry Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2008-03-25 ISBN-10: 0345469313 ISBN-13: 9780345469311 List Price: $26.00 Average Customer Rating: | | Careless in Red: A Novel ISBN-10: 0061160873 ISBN-13: 9780061160875 List Price:$27.95 Where Memories Lie: A Novel (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels) ISBN-10: 0061287512 ISBN-13: 9780061287510 List Price:$24.95 An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels) ISBN-10: 0805082158 ISBN-13: 9780805082159 List Price:$24.00 Murder on Bank Street: A Gaslight Mystery ISBN-10: 0425221512 ISBN-13: 9780425221518 List Price:$23.95 A Christmas Beginning: A Novel ISBN-10: 0345485823 ISBN-13: 9780345485823 List Price:$17.95 |
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The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queen’s monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet.
With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited–to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests’ conversations, scan their bedrooms, and scrutinize their troubled faces for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have lead to murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young woman–as seems increasingly likely–Pitt’s career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
With a cast of wonderful characters, among them the gentle Princess of Wales, and a twisting plot that takes us into the hidden world of the royal family, Anne Perry probes deeply the hearts of men and women ensnared by their own emotions. Never has this distinguished novelist told a story with more truth and passion. An avid thriller | Customer Rating: | | Anne Perry's BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDENS receives a hard-hitting narration by veteran Michael Page, who has recorded over 50 titles for this publisher alone. His voice spices a survey of Buckingham palace after a fatal house party draws in one Thomas Pitt to investigate the crisis. An avid thriller evolves. | Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry | Customer Rating: | | This book is great and good reading as all of her books are. She is my favorite writer. | A GOOD, JUICY MURDER WITH ONLY ONE FLAW... | Customer Rating: | ...no Charlotte to give Pitt help with his inquiries. But little Gracie, all 4'11.5" of her, finally gets to shine in this well-crafted novel. I did miss Charlotte and some of the other characters that often appear in this fine series but I was glad to see Pitt back solving murders and not hunting down saboteurs.
I don't want to give too much away, so I'll just say I thoroughly enjoyed this latest edition of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's adventures in crime. If you are a fan of this series, I think you'll be pleased as well.
Another fine job by Ms. Perry. But next time, a little bit more of Charlotte. | Great rainy afternoon reading | Customer Rating: | | I've been addicted to these books by Anne Perry for a number of years. They track well with stories my great-grandmother told me, and it's enjoyable to curl up with one of the books on a rainy afternoon. | Anne Perry novels are wonderful | Customer Rating: | | I have all her novels and though I haven't had the chance to read this one yet I'm sure I'll be pleased. |
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