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When Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case that had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he is all too aware that his superiors want him to simply smooth things over. But penetrating the reserve of high society households will take more finesse than Pitt can muster. Enter Charlotte Pitt, his wellborn wife, and her sister, Emily. As the social equals of the inhabitants of the Close, the women are privy to conversations that would never reach the ears of a mere policeman. What they find is a secret so shocking it will lead to more...

Als Charlotte von der Verzweiflung ihrer Mutter erfährt, weil sie ein Medaillon mit einem kompromittierenden Bild verloren hat, ahnt sie nicht, dass dies nur der Anfang einer Reihe bizarrer Ereignisse ist, die mit einem plötzlichen Tod enden werden. Denn hinter der prächtigen Eleganz des Rutland Place, wo Charlottes Mutter lebt, verbergen sich schreckliche Geheimnisse - Geheimnisse, die so entsetzlich sind, dass nur Mord sie verbergen kann. Aber die gefährliche Beharrlichkeit von Charlotte und die stille Geduld von Inspektor Pitt werden es ermöglichen, dieses höchst makabere und...

Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife s large fortune? Baffled by the scarcity of clues in this terrible crime, Inspector Thomas Pitt turns to the people who had been closest to the couple Clemency s stuffy but distinguished relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt s wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked in the last months of...

Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family-brothers 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....