A murder mystery set in the Victorian period in London and, I discovered, part of a series about police inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte. Resurrected bodies start turning up, the first propped on the box of a hansom cab, and confusion follows with mis-identification adding to the Inspector's problems.A strong thread in the story is the appalling conditions in the homes of the urban poor and the workhouses where they are forced to go if they reach bottom - with women prepared to turn

I had read this back when it originally came out (1981! I can't believe it was that long ago). But it had been so long that as I listened to the audiobook I kept thinking it sounded familiar. Then about 3/4 of the way through I remembered the ending. This is after Thomas Pitt and Charlotte are married and have a little girl. He's still insecure about her losing her position in society by marrying him and being okay with it. She's happy with her life as it is, chores and all. Pitt is called to in...

Fourth in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt historical mystery series set in Victorian England and revolving around an unlikely couple.My TakeTwisty. Perry sure went to a lot of work on this one. It's foot-slogging having to go back over and over again. Dealing with the same people as Pitt continues to drag the bits and pieces out of them. Slowly assembling the puzzle. It's an excellent example of why the police need to ask so many seemingly unrelated questions. You never know when one bit of informat...

Musical Corpses?When it appears that her dead sister’s husband is somehow involved in a crime, Charlotte Pitt, once again, joins her husband as he travels throughout the seedy sides of London, to help him solve the mystery of the resurrected corpses.Though she has recently given birth to a new baby, Charlotte doesn’t let it stop her from coming to the aid of a former family member.

Resurrection Row has a great premise. Bodies start turning up in the most surprising places. Not a surprise for a murder mystery, you say? Except these bodies have already had a funeral. Inspector Thomas Pitt is perplexed at what's happening. The first time was odd, the second time...This was another enjoyable read in a series that I have dipped into from time to time. I appreciate the social commentary that Anne Perry weaves into her books. Charlotte Pitt plays a very small role in this entry w...

Despite gruesome aspects, I enjoyed "Resurrection Row" thoroughly. Charlotte and Thomas's daughter, Jemima, is two and Emily, with a newborn son, does not appear. Aunt Vespasia is en forme and it was touching that Sarah is mentioned. Her widower, Dominic, is fond of a young widow. They land under brief suspicion in the most bizarre case Thomas has ever encountered: bodies in and out of graves. Minor quibbles leave ample room for a high grade. I do hope that with time, Anne Perry overcame these t...

Somebody is robbing graves and leaving the bodies in odd places around London. Somebody with a sense of humor, it appears. Inspector Pitt has to answer: Which was the original body, and Where is it now?Alongside Pitt's investigation is Aunt Vespasia's group of reformers, trying to put through a bill to ease the lot of the poor in London. It is estimated that one quarter of the London population is living a life of horrible poverty, and the upper class does not want to know.Read 4 times

This 4th novel in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series illustrated for me the importance of reading a series sequentially.A corpse turns up in an unlikely place, and even more mystifying, the corpse is three weeks old and was obviously dug up from its burial site. An empty grave is discovered and the identity traces to a Lord who was in his early 60’s when he died. His second wife, Alicia, is much younger – and she is also attracted to the handsome and charming Dominic Corde.Dominic Corde is a w...

I read Resurrection Row because it was mentioned in Anne Perry's latest book, Death on Blackheath, tying Aunt Vespasia's friend and neighbor, Somerset Carlyle, in with digging up dead bodies and placing them in places where they would be found. Pitt felt he must in some way be associated with the murder in Death on Blackheath since he was the only person he knew who had a stomach for such work. On the other hand, he didn't want to disturb the very proper Vespasia by bringing up a friend of hers,...

I enjoyed the mystery in this book more than the previous 3. It DID deal with some seedier sides of society which hadn't really made an appearance in the other books. However, the actual mystery was much more interesting and really had me thinking even though a murder isn't discovered until close to the end of the book. Normally this would drive me batty but here there is still a mystery, I just began to assume that it wouldn't involve a murder. It also delved into the horrific conditions of the...

The case of the reappearing corpses: Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond of Gadstone Park was properly buried after dying from a heart attack several weeks ago. So what is his body doing sitting atop a hansom cab like some sort of other-wordly cabbie? That's what Inspector Thomas Pitt would like to know. Graverobbing is a crime and he must discreetly try to find out what motive there could be for disinterring a lord and displaying his body on a cab. But Fitzroy-Hammond hasn't made his final appearance...

Resurrection Row is book four of the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry. One night coming home with his wife Charlotte Inspector Thomas Pitt came across a body that three days before was buried at the local cemetery. At first Inspector Thomas Pitt did not know if it was a joke or something more sinister. The readers of Resurrection Row will continue to follow Inspector Thomas Pitt investigation to find out what happens.I love reading the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's books, and Resurrect...

Number four in the series and this one was fun to imagine - I would love to see it as a TV program. People keep discovering dead bodies. Not just any dead bodies though. These have been exhumed, are at least a couple of weeks dead, covered in soil and sitting in places like the driver's seat of a horse drawn cab or on top of a grave stone complete with a jaunty hat. Inspector Thomas Pitt does excellent work to discover the people responsible for this weird situation and the reason why it has occ...

This book really deserves more like 3 1/2 stars, because it's a really well-written mystery, but it didn't really grab me emotionally. I more enjoyed it for the puzzle of it, and I have to say, it was nice having Detective Pitt as more of a focus than his wife Charlotte. Oddly, there was a lot less verbal class warfare and sniping than the last book in the series, which was a relief, but ironic, since the primary focus of many characters was passing a reform law to help deeply impoverished peopl...

I've read a bit of Anne Perry and like her books but this one was a letdown. The ending had many loose ends and unresolved story lines. A bunch of the characters were nothing but place holders. The mystery was too convoluted and silly. I might be giving up on this series and just sticking to the Monk series.

I really like this one!Corpses keep popping out all over the place, they've been dead and buried for weeks. Now someone digging them out and leave them without stealing any part of their bodies, something just not right!:)I think I like Ms. Perry's writing style.No heart pounding actions or Thomas chasing the villains everywhere in this series.He just a smart guy who was trying to solve the mystery with asking the right questions again and again until all the layers that we use to covered all th...

It was nice to come back to these two characters and life in Victorian London.And, as always, lots of historical information included, which was much appreciated. My only gripe is that blackmail was done earlier in the series, so that reveal was a bit of a disappointment.

In Resurrection Row, the book starts out with a corpse found in the driver's seat of a cab. Soon other bodies which have been dug up are also being found. An act of blackmail also leads to murder and Thomas Pitt is beside himself trying to find out what is going on. Aunt Vespasian makes a 2nd appearance and tries to help Charlotte and Thomas with this baffling mystery. We get another look at Victorian social life and the child labor and workhouse reform bill in called into the political realm. A...

Some years ago I discovered Anne Perry and read several of her books. I still remember her series with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. I just couldn't remember exactly how many of this series I had read. So I decide to start reading/listening to this fourth book. Perry does such a good job of portraying the time period, and creates real characters. In this book she presents an interesting mystery, but also relates the misery and hopelessness of the workhouses and lower classes in England. In addition...

Yes, the series is growing on me so I will continue on. Somewhat similar to Victoria Thompson's Gaslight series (which I love). Definitely some irony in how this mystery turned out."What an odd sight! The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. There was something terrible amiss. Despite doctor's claims of death by natural causes, Pitt insisted on serious digging to unearth the truth--even if it killed...