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Betrayal At Lisson Grove (2010)

by Anne Perry(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0755376803 (ISBN13: 9780755376803)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Headline

series

Charlotte & Thomas Pitt

review 1: I enjoyed this book a lot. I like Anne Perry's sleuths because they are so moral, but not stodgy. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt have a strong healthy marriage and are good parents. They deal with the horrible things with honor and integrity. Man, it's so rare these days to read a book with such characters. They are not perfect, either. They make mistakes but they face up to them. They do their duty, but keep the spirit of the law, not the letter. Perhaps I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I like myself this way. Here's just one of the quotes I liked: "There was a fierce loyalty in him (Thomas Pitt), but not toward the old woman (Queen Victoria) sitting in lonely widowhood in a house on the Isle of Wight, nursing the memories of the husband she had adored. It was the ideal he c... moreared about.... The worst of society was greedy, arrogant, and self-serving, but the best of it was supremely brave, it was generous, and above all it was loyal. What was anybody worth if they had no concept of a purpose greater than themselves."
review 2: I read all of Ms. Perry's Victorian mysteries because of the settings, plot, and interesting main characters. I have begun to tire of the extended asides she inserts to explain character's inner thoughts, and emotions that lie under the surface, and god-awful flashes in the eyes or faces of characters struggling to conceal what they are feeling. I find myself skimming the text during these moments. less

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