4.5 stars Again a book to enjoy. I'm beginning to get to know the characters, which I always consider as a great plus in reading series.

Two bodies of dead babies are uncovered in Callander Square. Were they stillborn or were they killed? What I like: Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. Emily is also surprising in this one. Whodunit is also keeping turning the pages.What I don't like: There are so many characters in the square that at the beginning they all blurred. And I had to ask myself who is who again? It was getting tedious. And all those secrets is like a soap opera. It picked up by 60 percent mark and got slow again. That ending w...

Second in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in Victorian London and revolving around a police inspector and his wife.My TakeEach of the murders revolves around babies while the instigator is sex. It's an interesting look at the double standards of the times and the expectations of the wives' behaviors as most of the families on the square are torn apart. Expectations and beliefs are torn asunder although, I suspect, several of the women affected end up being much happier. I did ra...

“Callander Square” is book two in Anne Perry’s Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. The book was published in 1980. The book covers Victorian London’s neighborhood’s rich secrets. Murders don’t take place in fashionable Callander Square, so Inspector Pitt’s wife Charlotte couldn’t resist finding out why one had. The plot revolves around the discovery of two infants bodies buried in the square of a high society neighborhood. The Pitts are on the case. The book is more about Victorian society, how th...

So. Many. Characters. It was hard to keep track of them all and when the killer was finally revealed I didn’t remember who it was and I didn’t care.

When a couple of gardeners beginning digging to add another plan to the garden in the exclusive Callander Square, they discover the tiny remains of two infants. Inspector Thomas Pitt is called upon to discreetly investigate and finds himself running into roadblocks among the socially superior residents of the square. Even their servants are reluctant to given any help to the police and no one will admit knowledge of any unwanted pregnancies. His sister-in-law, Lady Emily Ashworth, finding hersel...

Two books into this series now and I am very happy I have so many ahead of me to read! I really enjoyed this second outing with Charlotte and her policeman husband Thomas.I always enjoy historical fiction set in yesteryear London and I love a good mystery so Callander Square was bound to be a good read for me. It turned out that there was more than one mystery involved and more than one person responsible and I did not have a clue who did what until it was disclosed almost in the last page. One

3.4 stars.The mystery is good, as usual plenty killed in this story.It was nice to meet Charlotte and Thomas again, they married now and expecting their first child.As we know Thomas is not a well born and budget rather low for these two. So, no maid and it was fun to see Charlotte learn how to cook and clean the house:)The good thing is Thomas was fine with Charlotte read newspapers, and he thought Charlotte is adorable when she talked freely what she had in mind:)However too many POV in this b...

My second historic sojourn with Anne Perry, whose wonderful suite I’m taking in ten years tardy, was also enjoyed at the five-star level. By an odd personal turn, it was hard to begin this sequel to “The Cater Street Hangman” because my dear cat unexpectedly died while that book was going! We miss you very much, Love. I didn’t want to associate Anne with a sad event. After a few uplifting titles: I got back upon the saddle and forged into “Callander Square”.Exactly like the former, action and ac...

I’m Loving It!Now that Charlotte has married her Inspector Pitt, she sees herself as a semi-sleuth. But fortunately, she is good at what she does and makes a wonderful aid to her husband.He doesn’t know how lucky he is. 😉

I ‘met’ the tall Charlotte Ellison who lacked a filter on her mouth, her beautiful but conniving sister Emily, the secretive Lord William Ashworth and Inspector Thomas Pitt when I read The Cater Street Hangman. The mystery was good and I enjoyed Thomas’s character. He was a working man’s son who was educated side by side with a nobleman’s heir. His wisdom and speech did not match his disheveled clothes or wild hair. He wasn’t handsome but he fell in love with Charlotte. And he solved the case. T...

Callander Square is the second in the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries, set in Victorian London. Inspector Pitt is a police inspector, clearly no better than the servants in the upper class neighborhood in which he works (at least from their perspective). Charlotte was "stubborn, compassionate, and willful" (p. 254). Together, although they do not share their plans as they move through this case, they have access to different worlds and realms of information, allowing them to solve their case...

The discovery of two tiny corpses buried in the middle of London's toney Callander Square sees Inspector Thomas Pitt sent in to investigate; at first without his knowledge and then with his consent, his high-born wife Charlotte and her elder sister Emily, who's married for aristocratic prestige, help his inquiries by ingratiating themselves among Callander Square's worthies -- or, as it too often proves, unworthies. As the tale proceeds, more and more dirty laundry comes spilling out. It seems t...

I really don't care for this particular book, which is a pity because I like the first one a lot. Unfortunately there's very little Charlotte and Pitt here, the mystery is hardly pressing, the characters are hard to keep straight, (Campbell or Carlton?) and the solution is nasty. The whole thing could be called "Titled People Behaving Badly". It's full of gossip, affairs with married people or servants and people lying to people... absolutely not my kind of book. I'd forgotten how much I dislike...

Yeah, I got an Audible subscription just so I could listen to this, and yes, I listened to it all day today while I went about my life, and yes, I just got the third book. Even though I’ve read them before. Because they’re good stories and great audio books. Sue me.

Two dead infants are discovered buried in a public garden in the affluent section of residences. Inspector Pitt is assigned to the matter and discovers that numerous secrets and scandals abound. Charlotte Pitt is persuaded by her sister to help with the investigation. This story is written in the Victorian era when the behavioral and legal rules governing men and women of “class” are sharply distinguishable from the lower, serving “class”. In this period, wives of the elite were only successful

There’s a problem in reviewing a series where the characters’ stories develop with each new book: it is almost impossible to write without spoilers regarding what has occurred previously. Ah well, I will do my best to avoid it.Somewhere between the first novel and this second one, both Charlotte and her sister Emily marry their respective suitors. Charlotte marries Thomas Pitt, the police Inspector whose persistence in solving a mystery in the first book was matched by his persistence in wooing

Second in this series. Charlotte has married Thomas, and finds a way to get around Victorian gender rules about the reaspectable wife remaining in the home to get out and help him solve a series of murders that begin with the discovery of some buried infant skeletons in the shared garden of a fashionable cul-de-sac where some well-to-do Londoners reside, Callander Square. Who put those dead babies there, and why? I liked Charlotte's sister Emily even more in this volume, for she uses her skills

When the skeletons of two infants are found buried in fashionable Callander Square, it's up to three people to negotiate the labyrinth of social mores, scandal and deceit: Inspector Pitt, his intrepid wife Charlotte, and her redoubtable sister Emily ... who arguably is the real sleuth through much of the first half of the book.Overall, this is an intriguing and often disturbing study of Victorian high society, but it suffers from the (also Victorian) attributes of being somewhat dry and reserved...

Victorian London sucked. But these mysteries are good.