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Ashworth Hall - (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt) by Anne Perry (Paperback)

Ashworth Hall - (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt) by  Anne Perry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Scotland Yard's Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his clever spouse, Charlotte, investigate a murder at a secret summit of Irish political figures that threatens to precipitate a civil war.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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, negotiations seem doomed. Unless Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, can root out the truth, simmering hatreds and passions may again explode in murder.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Intelligently written and historically fascinating."<i>--The Wall Street Journal<br></i><br>"A political thriller and a rousing whodunnit . . . [Anne] Perry interweaves history and fiction so deftly that this narration assumes a seemingly monumental importance."<i>--Chicago Sun-Times</i> <p/>"Though one of the pleasures of Anne Perry's mysteries is her atmospheric and vivid rendering of Victorian England, the plot of her satisfying new novel, <i>Ashworth Hall, </i> is as contemporary as today's headlines."<i>--San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"The Troubles perfectly suit Perry's gift for rooting large-scale social conflict in the minutiae of domestic intrigue."<i>--Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"[A] rewarding series."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anne Perry</b> is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including <i>Death on Blackheath</i> and <i>Midnight at Marble Arch, </i>and<i> </i>the William Monk novels, including <i>Blood on the Water </i>and <i>Blind Justice</i>. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as twelve holiday novels, most recently <i>A New York Christmas, </i> and a historical novel, <i>The Sheen on the Silk, </i> set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.

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