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  • Bibliography:
    116 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1979
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Anne Perry, born October 28 1938, died April 11 2023

Anne Perry (born Juliet Hulme in 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction. In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother. She changed her name to "Anne Perry" after serving a five-year sentence.

Anne’s publishing career began in 1979 with "The Cater Street Hangman," featuring the Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife Charlotte. In 2017 she released the 32nd book in the Pitt series, and began a new series featuring their son Daniel. In 1990, Anne started a second series of detective novels with "The Face of a Stranger." These are set about 35 years prior to the Pitts, and feature the mysterious private detective William Monk and volatile nurse Hester Latterly.

Anne won an Edgar award in 2000 with her short story “Heroes”. The main character in the story features in a five-book series set during the First World War, which were published between 2003 and 2007.

Full Series List in Order

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

1 - The Cater Street Hangman (Jun-1979)
2 - Callander Square (Jan-1980)
3 - Paragon Walk (Jan-1981)
4 - Resurrection Row (Oct-1981)
5 - Rutland Place (Aug-1983)
6 - Bluegate Fields (Nov-1984)
7 - Death in the Devil's Acre (Oct-1985)
8 - Cardington Crescent (Feb-1987)
9 - Silence in Hanover Close (Aug-1988)
10 - Bethlehem Road (Jun-1990)
11 - Highgate Rise (1991)
12 - Belgrave Square (Apr-1992)
13 - Farrier's Lane (Apr-1993)
14 - The Hyde Park Headsman (Aug-1994)
15 - Traitor's Gate (Mar-1995)
16 - Pentecost Alley (Mar-1996)
17 - Ashworth Hall (Mar-1997)
18 - Brunswick Gardens (Apr-1998)
19 - Bedford Square (Jul-1998)
20 - Half Moon Street (Apr-2000)
21 - The Whitechapel Conspiracy (Feb-2001)
22 - Southampton Row (Feb-2002)
23 - Seven Dials (Feb-2003)
24 - Long Spoon Lane (Mar-2005)
25 - Buckingham Palace Gardens (Apr-2008)
26 - Treason at Lisson Grove (Apr-2011)
27 - Dorchester Terrace (Apr-2012)
28 - Midnight at Marble Arch (Apr-2013)
29 - Death on Blackheath (Mar-2014)
30 - The Angel Court Affair (Apr-2015)
31 - Treachery at Lancaster Gate (Mar-2016)
32 - Murder on the Serpentine (Mar-2017)
33 - Twenty-One Days (Apr-2018)
34 - Triple Jeopardy (Apr-2019)

Christmas Novellas

1 - A Christmas Journey (Nov-2003)
2 - A Christmas Visitor (Oct-2004)
3 - A Christmas Guest (Nov-2005)
4 - A Christmas Secret (Nov-2006)
5 - A Christmas Beginning (Nov-2007)
6 - A Christmas Grace (Nov-2008)
7 - A Christmas Promise (Nov-2009)
8 - A Christmas Odyssey (Nov-2010)
9 - A Christmas Homecoming (Oct-2011)
10 - A Christmas Garland (Nov-2012)
11 - A Christmas Hope (Nov-2013)
12 - A New York Christmas (Nov-2014)
13 - A Christmas Escape (Nov-2015)
14 - A Christmas Message (Nov-2016)
15 - A Christmas Return (Nov-2017)
16 - A Christmas Revelation (Nov-2018)
17 - A Christmas Gathering (Nov-2019)
18 - A Christmas Resolution (Nov-2020)
19 - A Christmas Legacy (Nov-2021)
20 - A Christmas Deliverance (Nov-2022)
21 - A Christmas Vanishing (Nov-2023)

Daniel Pitt

1 - Twenty-One Days (Apr-2018)
2 - Triple Jeopardy (Apr-2019)
3 - One Fatal Flaw (Apr-2020)
4 - Death with a Double Edge (Apr-2021)
5 - Three Debts Paid (Oct-2021)
6 - The Fourth Enemy (Jan-2023)

Elena Standish

1 - Death in Focus (Sep-2019)
2 - A Question of Betrayal (Sep-2020)
3 - A Darker Reality (Sep-2021)
4 - A Truth to Lie For (Sep-2022)
5 - A Traitor Among Us (Apr-2023)

Henry Rathbone

1 - A Christmas Visitor (Oct-2004)
2 - A Christmas Odyssey (Nov-2010)

Lady Vespasia

1 - An Affair of Inconvenience (Dec-1999)
2 - A Christmas Journey (Nov-2003)
3 - A Christmas Message (Nov-2016)

Reavley (WWI)

1 - No Graves As Yet (Sep-2003)
2 - Shoulder the Sky (Sep-2004)
3 - Angels in the Gloom (Aug-2005)
4 - At Some Disputed Barricade (Mar-2007)
5 - We Shall Not Sleep (Apr-2007)

Tathea

1 - Tathea (Aug-1999)
2 - Come Armageddon (Aug-2003)

A William Monk Novel

1 - The Face of a Stranger (1990)
2 - Dangerous Mourning (1991)
3 - Defend and Betray (Sep-1992)
4 - A Sudden, Fearful Death (Aug-1993)
5 - The Sins of the Wolf (Aug-1994)
6 - Cain His Brother (Sep-1995)
7 - Weighed in the Balance (Oct-1996)
8 - The Silent Cry (Oct-1997)
9 - A Breach of Promise (Sep-1998)
10 - The Twisted Root (Oct-1999)
11 - Slaves of Obsession (Oct-2000)
12 - Funeral in Blue (Oct-2001)
13 - Death of a Stranger (Oct-2002)
14 - The Shifting Tide (Apr-2004)
15 - Dark Assassin (Apr-2006)
16 - Execution Dock (Apr-2009)
17 - Acceptable Loss (Aug-2011)
18 - A Sunless Sea (Sep-2012)
19 - Blind Justice (Sep-2013)
20 - Blood on the Water (Sep-2014)
21 - Corridors of the Night (Sep-2015)
22 - Revenge in a Cold River (Sep-2016)
23 - An Echo of Murder (Sep-2017)
24 - Dark Tide Rising (Sep-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

2 - The Scroll (Nov-2012)

Book List in Order: 116 titles

  • The Cater Street Hangman

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 1

    While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like the proper Victorian ladies their papa wanted them to be, a maid in their own household was strangled to death. Other women had met similar fates. Then quiet, young Inspector Pitt...

  • Callander Square

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 2

    Murders just didn't happen in fashionable areas like Callander Square--but these two had. The police were totally baffled. But pretty young Charlotte Ellison Pitt was curious. Inspector Pitt's well-bred wife didn't often meddle in her husband's bu...

  • Paragon Walk

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 3

    In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselve...

  • Resurrection Row

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 4

    It was the most incredible thing: a corpse sitting in an empty hansom cab. And it wasn't just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Pitt and his sleuthing wife, Charlotte, this seemed the sheerest lunacy. Who would want to ...

  • Rutland Place

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 5

    London's most unusual sleuthing team, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, could not stay away from trouble. When Charlotte learned of her mother's distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture, she did not know it was the begi...

  • Bluegate Fields

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 6

    Inspector Pitt was shocked. The body was found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London's most dangerous slums, but the dead boy was clearly from high society. And he had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case was hardly a...

  • Death in the Devil's Acre

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 7

    When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London aptly named "Devil's Acre;" even its most hardened residents are stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome "c...

  • Cardington Crescent

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 8

    When womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, the shocked Cardington Crescent household's immediate concern is quieting the scandal as discreetly--and quickly--as possible. Unfortunately for March's wife Emily, that m...

  • Silence in Hanover Close

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 9

    When Inspector Thomas Pitt was asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case which had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he was all too aware that his superiors wanted him to smooth thinks over. But penetrating the reserve of high so...



  • The Face of a Stranger

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    A William Monk Novel - 1

    His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life: his memory and his entire past have vanished. Trying as best he can to hide that fact, Monk returns...

  • Bethlehem Road

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 10

    The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attired--fresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarf-and he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat. Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilto...

  • Dangerous Mourning

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    A William Monk Novel - 2

    No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family--until Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to find her killer with...

  • Highgate Rise

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 11

    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 bl...

  • Belgrave Square

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 12

    When an obscure moneylender named William Weems is murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, there are no mourners and more than a little discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he so mercilessly devoured. Yet when Inspector Pitt f...

  • Defend and Betray

    A William Monk Novel - 3

    After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle, but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident. But the General's beautiful wif...

  • Farrier's Lane

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 13

    When Mr. Justice Stafford, a distinguished judge in the court of appeals, falls ill and dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years before of Kingsley Blaine...

  • A Sudden, Fearful Death

    A William Monk Novel - 4

    In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horr...

  • The Hyde Park Headsman

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 14

    Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt does not quickly apprehend the perpetrator, he is likely to...

  • The Sins of the Wolf

    A William Monk Novel - 5

    Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the position: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester's simple job takes a grave turn when the woman dies during the n...



  • Traitor's Gate

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 15

    Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood ment...

  • Cain His Brother

    A William Monk Novel - 6

    In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long...

  • The Blackmailer

    in Murder for Love

    Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....

  • Pentecost Alley

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 16

    The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But, under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the nam...

  • Weighed in the Balance

    A William Monk Novel - 7

    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 pr...

  • Ashworth Hall

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 17

    When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gather at a country house to discuss Irish home rule, contention is to be expected. But when the meeting's moderator, government bigwig Ainsley Greville, is found murdered in his bath, negotiat...

  • The Silent Cry

    A William Monk Novel - 8

    Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, res...

  • Brunswick Gardens

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 18

    In London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism a...

  • Bedford Square

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 19

    The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his hom...

  • The Case of the Santo Nino

    in Crime Through Time II

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...



  • A Breach of Promise

    A William Monk Novel - 9

    In a sensational breach of promise suit, two wealthy social climbers are suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah's alleged fiance, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will no...

  • Madame President

    in First Lady Murders

    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...

  • Tathea

    Tathea - 1

    A former empress, Tathea suddenly finds herself exiled from her kingdom and her former life and embarks on a perilous and extraordinary journey, filled with danger, adventure, wisdom, and new understanding, as she wanders through the Lost Lands. Repr...

  • The Twisted Root

    A William Monk Novel - 10

    A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancee, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. But Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered b...

  • An Affair of Inconvenience

    in First Cases Volume 3
    Lady Vespasia - 1

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • The One Thing More

    In Revolutionary France, a grisly murder threatens to derail an ambitious plan to save the condemned king Célie Laurent stands in the convention hall of the French Republic, watching the deputies vote one by one. Most of them have just one word t...

  • Half Moon Street

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 20

    For superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat's sides. He is clad in a torn green ...

  • Slaves of Obsession

    A William Monk Novel - 11

    The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride,...

  • The Whitechapel Conspiracy

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 21

    In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenc...

  • A Dish Taken Cold

    Compellingly, with the narrative elegance that has placed her Victorian mystery novels on best-selling fiction lists worldwide, Edgar Award-winning novelist Anne Perry turns her unerring historical eye to Paris 1792. Revolution is yielding to Terror,...



  • Funeral in Blue

    A William Monk Novel - 12

    Two beautiful women have been found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife, Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is the wife of Hester's cherished colleague, surgeon Dr. Kri...

  • Southampton Row

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 22

    In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so inflamed that Thomas Pitt; shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered, not to solve a crime, but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidat...

  • Death of a Stranger

    A William Monk Novel - 13

    THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A RAILWAY MAGNATE IN A sleazy brothel has shocked high society. Meanwhile, private investigator William Monk acquires a mysterious new client who asks him to ascertain beyond the shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiance, a rail...

  • Seven Dials

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 23

    Thomas Pitt, mainstay of 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...

  • Death by Horoscope

    Featuring original stories by such contributors as Anne Perry, Lawrence Block, Sharyn McCrumb, Peter Lovesey, Marcia Muller, and Faye Kellerman, a gripping collection combines mystery with astrology and delves into the mystical omens and lethal recko...

  • Come Armageddon

    Tathea - 2

    Five hundred years have passed since the events that drove Tathea, the Empress of Shinabar, into exile in the Lost Lands. There she found not only the oblivion she sought, but a chronicle of mystical teachings in a magical Book. She also found her de...

  • No Graves As Yet

    Reavley (WWI) - 1

    On a sunny afternoon in late June 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London with ...

  • Much Ado About Murder

    A collection of original tales of mystery, intrigue, and murder inspired by the life, times, and work of William Shakespeare features contributions by Jeffery Deaver, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, P.C. Doherty, and other notable writers. Rep...

  • A Christmas Journey

    Christmas Novellas - 1
    Lady Vespasia - 2

    Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bid...

  • A Tale of One City

    in Death By Dickens

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • The Shifting Tide

    A William Monk Novel - 14

    William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand. But the river Thames and its teeming docks -- where wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades -- is unknown territory. Only Monk's dire need for work persuades him to accept an ass...

  • I'd Kill For That

    in I'd Kill For That

    WHEN DEALING WITH THE RICH... On the banks of the scenic Truxton River, nestled in rolling woodlands just minutes away from our nation's capital, lies Gryphon Gate, a premier gated community. But tempers flare and tension grows when someone decides ...

  • Shoulder the Sky

    Reavley (WWI) - 2

    By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war corr...

  • A Christmas Visitor

    Christmas Novellas - 2
    Henry Rathbone - 1

    The Dreghorn family is gathering for an anticipated reunion in the Lake District of England. The blissful tranquility of the snowbound estate, however, is soon shattered by what appears to be an accidental death. The victim's distraught wife, Antonia...

  • Letters from the Highlands

  • The Judgement

    in Powers of Detection

    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...

  • Long Spoon Lane

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 24

    After bombs explode during an anarchist attack in Long Spoon Lane, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom? As Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch delves into the case, he finds that there's more to the terrorism than ...

  • The Sunken Sailor

    Fouteen masters of suspense: Simon Brett, Jan Burke, Dorothy Cannell, Margaret Coel, Deborah Crombie, Eileen Dreyer, Carolyn Hart, Edward Marston, Francine Mathews, Sharan Newman, Alexandra Ripley, Walter Satterthwaite, Sarah Smith, Carolyn Wheat. O...

  • Sing a Song of Sixpence

    in Death Dines In

    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...

  • Angels in the Gloom

    Reavley (WWI) - 3

    Anne Perry's intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder set during World War I follows the travails of an honorable English family--brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain ...

  • A Christmas Guest

    Christmas Novellas - 3

    In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full of devious delight . . . and certain death. For Grandmama Ellison, Chr...

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill

    The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo-Christian society; the ...

  • Dark Assassin

    A William Monk Novel - 15

    On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murd...

  • A Christmas Secret

    Christmas Novellas - 4

    Just in time for the holidays, 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 Rev...

  • At Some Disputed Barricade

    Reavley (WWI) - 4

    July 1917: Joseph Reavley, a chaplain, and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver, are bone-weary as they approach the fourth year of the conflict; the peace of the English countryside seems a world away. On the Western Front, the Battle of Passchend...

  • We Shall Not Sleep

    Reavley (WWI) - 5

    Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world's best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry's talents "have taken a quantum leap" (The Star-Ledger), and so has t...

  • A Christmas Beginning

    Christmas Novellas - 5

    Superintendent Runcorn--who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss--is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when th...

  • Buckingham Palace Gardens

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 25

    THE PRINCE OF WALES has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham 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 gatherin...

  • A Christmas Grace

    Christmas Novellas - 6

    With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the ...

  • Execution Dock

    A William Monk Novel - 16

    On the bustling docks along the River Thames, Great Britain’s merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade. The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Philli...

  • Silent Nights

    Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain"where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.A CHRISTMAS BEGINNINGWhile spending Christmas on the island o...

  • A Christmas Promise

    Christmas Novellas - 7

    Anne Perry's Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two" New York Times" bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk. A Christmas Promise is the seventh in Perry's holiday...

  • The Sheen on the Silk

    New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War I, now broadens her canvas with her first major stand-alone book -- an epic historical novel set in...

  • My Object All Sublime

    in Christmas At The Mysterious Bookshop

    Each year, for the past seventeen years, Otto Penzler, owner of the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has commissioned an original story by a leading mystery writer. The requirements were that it be a mystery/ crime/suspense story, that...

  • A Christmas Odyssey

    Christmas Novellas - 8
    Henry Rathbone - 2

    Once again, the distinguished mathematician Henry Rathbone is approached to help solve a mystery. This time, the call comes from an old friend whose son has gone missing--and just before the Christmas holiday. Now in his early twenties, Lucien has kn...

  • Treason at Lisson Grove

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 26

    Anne Perry's very special world of mystery, passion, and danger has attracted an entire generation of readers to her bestselling Victorian novels. Treason at Lisson Grove, her first Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel in three years, is a masterpiece, in...

  • Acceptable Loss

    A William Monk Novel - 17

    "Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil," The New York Times Book Review once declared, "and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens's eyes pop." And Perry's new William and Hester Monk stor...

  • A Christmas Homecoming

    Christmas Novellas - 9

    Among the brilliant array of Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling novels, her Christmas stories occupy perhaps the warmest spot in the hearts of readers. Each one is a masterpiece of suspense; each is alight with the true holiday spirit. In A C...

  • Dorchester Terrace

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 27

    Anne Perry's acclaimed Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels have made London's exclusive world of wealth and power an addictive literary destination for readers everywhere. This new masterpiece, a haunting story of love and treason, invites us not only i...

  • A Sunless Sea

    A William Monk Novel - 18

    Anne Perry’s spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled readers for a generation. The Plain Dealer calls Monk “a marvelously dark, brooding creation” -- and, true to form, this new Perry masterpie...

  • A Christmas Garland

    Christmas Novellas - 10

    The year is 1857, soon after the violent Siege of Cawnpore, with India in the midst of rebellion. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. D...

  • The Scroll

    Bibliomysteries - 2

    An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery. Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Da...

  • Midnight at Marble Arch

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 28

    In this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where women are too often blamed for the violent a...

  • Blind Justice

    A William Monk Novel - 19

    For a generation, Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great men sometimes make unfortunate choi...

  • A Christmas Hope

    Christmas Novellas - 11

    A Christmas Hope is just as delectable -- the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London -- and a lonely woman’s search for meaning in her life. Although she lacks for nothing, Claudine Burroughs drea...

  • Death on Blackheath

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 29

    Anne Perry’s superb New York Times bestselling novels set in the glorious reign of Victoria are loved by readers far and wide. Now, with this new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery, Perry returns us to that charmed era, when wealth and power rule --...

  • Blood on the Water

    A William Monk Novel - 20

    As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us to London’s gra...

  • A New York Christmas

    Christmas Novellas - 12

    Anne Perry’s new Christmas novel is an irresistible tale of love, betrayal, greed, murder, and selfless devotion. For the first time, Perry’s annual yuletide offering is set in New York City -- a sparkling young metropolis bursting with life, pro...

  • The Angel Court Affair

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 30

    In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry’s gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, where greed an...

  • Corridors of the Night

    A William Monk Novel - 21

    In CORRIDORS OF THE NIGHT, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide.   The monomaniacal Rand brothers -- M...

  • A Christmas Escape

    Christmas Novellas - 13

    For countless readers, Christmastime means a delicious new holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A Christmas Escape, her thirteenth noel to the season, transports us to the Mediterranean island of Stromboli for an unconve...

  • Treachery at Lancaster Gate

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 31

    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 soc...

  • Revenge in a Cold River

    A William Monk Novel - 22

    Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever as he spars with ...

  • A Christmas Message

    Christmas Novellas - 14
    Lady Vespasia - 3

    In the spirit of the season, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry presents readers with the gift of another holiday mystery, taking them to the Holy Land for an intriguing and miraculous journey of discovery. The year is 1900, and Victor ...

  • Murder on the Serpentine

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 32

    In the history of Anne Perry’s bestselling Victorian mystery series, the stakes have never been greater than now -- as a mission for queen and country places the future of the British Empire squarely in Thomas Pitt’s hands. It is not the custo...

  • An Echo of Murder

    A William Monk Novel - 23

    In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques -- lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. I...

  • A Christmas Return

    Christmas Novellas - 15

    ’Tis the season of giving -- and with this wonderful book, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry shares a brand-new holiday mystery filled with bygone relationships and hidden secrets. As Charlotte Pitt’s grandmother Mariah Ellison find...

  • Twenty-One Days

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 33
    Daniel Pitt - 1

    In the first book of an all-new series, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London’s Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barr...

  • Dark Tide Rising

    A William Monk Novel - 24

    When a ransom exchange turns deadly in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men. Jacob’s Island is a broken-down waterside slum, a ...

  • A Christmas Revelation

    Christmas Novellas - 16

    In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman’s kidnapping -- and discovers there’s more at stake than a disappearance. It wouldn’t quite be Christmas without a holiday m...

  • Triple Jeopardy

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt - 34
    Daniel Pitt - 2

    Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat accused of a theft that may cover up a deadly crime in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Th...

  • Death in Focus

    Elena Standish - 1

    In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her dead lover’s final, world-shattering message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the...

  • A Christmas Gathering

    Christmas Novellas - 17

    A cold case adds an extra chill to the holiday season as bestselling author Anne Perry whisks readers to an elegant home in the English countryside for a Christmas of secrets, soul-searching, and forgiveness. As beautiful as it may be, their frien...

  • One Fatal Flaw

    Daniel Pitt - 3

    Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in this explosive new novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt...

  • A Question of Betrayal

    Elena Standish - 2

    On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of bestselling author Anne Perry's thrilling 1930s mystery series travels to Mussolini's Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her. Britain's secret service, MI6...

  • A Christmas Resolution

    Christmas Novellas - 18

    A smitten young woman is about to marry a dangerous man--unless Detective Hooper and his new girlfriend can prevent it--in this wickedly tangled holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry. Detective John Hooper, William Monk's right-ha...

  • Death with a Double Edge

    Daniel Pitt - 4

    Daniel Pitt’s investigation into his colleague’s murder leads him through London’s teeming underbelly to the suspicious dealings of one of England’s most influential shipbuilding magnates in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling a...

  • A Darker Reality

    Elena Standish - 3

    A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. On her first trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish final...

  • Three Debts Paid

    Daniel Pitt - 5

    A serial killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A serial ...

  • A Christmas Legacy

    Christmas Novellas - 19

    Thomas and Charlotte Pitt’s former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches -- but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry. After leaving her position with Charlo...

  • Charlotte and Thomas Pitt: A Mysterious Profile

    In this short story, the New York Times"bestselling author delves into the private lives and personal histories of her “extremely congenial characters” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).   It is 1912, and Peter Naylor calls at the home of Lady V...

  • A Truth to Lie For

    Elena Standish - 4

    A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe -- unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches -- in this action-packed mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry.It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of ...

  • A Christmas Deliverance

    Christmas Novellas - 20

    A courageous doctor and his apprentice fight to save London’s poor -- and discover that the hearts of men can be colder than a winter chill -- in this gripping holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.“Perry’s Victorian...

  • The Fourth Enemy

    Daniel Pitt - 6

    Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark -- and dangerous -- secrets in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel...

  • A Traitor Among Us

    Elena Standish - 5

    Elena Standish investigates the murder of a fellow MI6 agent near the country estate of one of England’s most influential families in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.“Unbearably suspenseful.” -- Bookrepor...

  • Broken Snow Globes Karen

    The fictional former wife of a child serial killer is Anne; she would be the one to uncover the evidence that would solve these murders and more. Her ex-husband, David inveigles her involvement when he feels the timing is right. Follow along on her j...

  • A Christmas Vanishing

    Christmas Novellas - 21

    Charlotte Pitt’s clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend in this chilling holiday whodunit by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt’s grandmother, accepts her longt...

Award-Winning Books by Anne Perry

The Shifting Tide
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anne Perry has published 116 books.

Anne Perry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Christmas Vanishing, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman, was published in June 1979.

Yes. Anne Perry has 9 series.
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