Thomas Pitt must discover whether the son of Lord Landsborough was shot to death as a hostage of anarchists, or if he was an anarchist himself.

When Charlotte learns of her mother's distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture, she has no idea that it's just the beginning of a series of bizarre events that will end in sudden death.

Special Branch officer, Thomas Pitt tracks a vital informer's murderer to St. Almo on the French coast. Meanwhile Charlotte Pitt, Thomas's wife, accompanies the Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway, to Dublin to invesitgate accusations of embezzling government funds. Unbeknownst to the Pitt's and Narraway, a shadowy plotter is setting a trap that could potentially destroy the British Empire.

"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 Thomas Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome calling card: a stab wound in the back and a rather inexpertly executed mutilation. As Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, race against time to find the killer, a treacherous mystery unfolds. And no one,...

In the debut of the New York Times–bestselling Victorian crime series, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society. Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced...

The death of a petty moneylender leads Inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-connected wife, Charlotte, to the doorsteps of London's most powerful citizenry, and to shocking secrets and further death.

Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.

Members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge, in the New York Times–bestselling series set in Victorian London: “A sterling performance” (Library Journal).
 In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt...

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 sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End's most dangerous...

In 19th Century England a meeting of Irish Protestants and Catholics to discuss home rule for Ireland is disrupted by murder. Scotland Yard's Thomas Pitt and his wife try to find the killer before he strikes again and scuttles the talks, the purpose of which is to bring peace to Ireland. By the author of Pentecost Alley.