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Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt’s journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials, to a packed London courtroom where shocking secrets will at last be revealed….

Published by Ballantine Books.

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Don’t miss this New York Times bestselling novel featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

SOUTHAMPTON ROW

by Anne Perry

“COMPELLING AND PROVOCATIVE … VINTAGE PERRY: A GRAND, SWEEPING MYSTERY OF MANNERS.”

—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so enflamed that Thomas Pitt, shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered to prevent a national disaster. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife’s dalliance with spiritualism threatens his chances. Indeed, she is one of the participants in a late-night séance that leads to a brutal murder on Southampton Row. Meanwhile, Pitt’s wife, Charlotte, and their children are enjoying a country vacation—unaware that they, too, are deeply endangered by the same fanatical forces hovering over the steadfast Pitt….

Published by Ballantine Books.

Available wherever books are sold.