Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
The 31st novel in the popular Victorian crime series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London's anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men. Did they lie about a drugs raid that went fatally wrong, and let an innocent man hang?

The idea of police dishonesty cuts Tellman to the quick - he joined the force to protect society, not exploit it. But he must uncover the truth, however much he wants to resist the signs of blackmail and corruption. With the threat of further bombings, and their superiors pushing for a quick resolution, Pitt and Tellman find their every move scrutinised, and their own lives suddenly at risk...

Treachery at Lancaster Gate is the exceptional new historical thriller from the master of Victorian crime.

Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate. When the powerful conceal their own crimes, Thomas Pitt must uncover the truth... A Commander Thomas Pitt Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472219534 (April, 2016), 320 p., £8.99.

Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Gripping and provocative, the latest Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry peers unflinchingly into the corrupt affairs of Victorian society on the brink of the century's turn. The world is poised for social and political change, but England holds tight to its traditions, classes, and prejudices.

When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists are the culprits. But Thomas Pitt, commander of Special Branch, knows the city's radical groups well enough to suspect otherwise: that someone with decidedly more personal motives lit the deadly fuse. As he investigates the source of the fatal blast, he's stunned to discover the bombing was a calculated strike against the ranks of law enforcement.

But still more shocking revelations await, as Pitt's inquiries lead him to a member of Parliament hoping for a lucrative business deal, a high-ranking police officer with secrets to keep, and an aristocratic opium addict seeking murderous revenge. As he pursues each increasingly threatening lead, Pitt finds himself impeded at every turn by the barriers put in place to protect the rich and powerful -- barriers which, as they start to crumble, threaten to bury him alive.

Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate. A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel. Ballantine, ISBN: 9781101886328 (March, 2016), 304 p., $28.00, eBook $13.99.

Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
The 31st novel in the popular Victorian crime series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London's anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men. Did they lie about a drugs raid that went fatally wrong, and let an innocent man hang?

The idea of police dishonesty cuts Tellman to the quick - he joined the force to protect society, not exploit it. But he must uncover the truth, however much he wants to resist the signs of blackmail and corruption. With the threat of further bombings, and their superiors pushing for a quick resolution, Pitt and Tellman find their every move scrutinised, and their own lives suddenly at risk...

Treachery at Lancaster Gate is the exceptional new historical thriller from the master of Victorian crime.

Anne Perry: Treachery at Lancaster Gate. When the powerful conceal their own crimes, Thomas Pitt must uncover the truth... A Commander Thomas Pitt Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472219558 (September, 2015), 288 p., £18.99.