Ok, so I have read the first 3 of these Thomas Pitt mysteries and they all follow a strange trend for murder mysteries, they all focus on the social expectations and happenings of the Victorian Era and not at all on clues, just who said what and who did what. This last one Thomas Pitt was not even involved when the mystery was solved and he is supposed to be one of the lead characters. Give me back my Agatha Christie mysteries.

So a very early book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. I’ve unfortunately read later so no in order as would be amazing if you can. Women of the high class raped and murdered! Who what why? It will shock you as it did me in the end!

I don’t know what I keep reading these. Maybe because I know they do have some potential in the beginning. But then about a fourth of the way through the plot and characters get so clogged up and it just turns into complete nonsense. And then it’s like she got tired of writing the book and barely manages to finish. You literally find out who the killer is on the last page. No conclusion or wrap up.

Thomas and Charlotte are great together but in this book, there wasn't much teamwork and Charlotte makes foolish decisions to put herself in danger. In fact, we lost track of Thomas at the end of the book and we were left wondering if he even knew what was going on? Then he is called at the end. I really don't like it when an author has a character compromise their otherwise intelligent manner to promote the storyline. We all have our moments, but sometimes it's like they take a stupid pill and

"People do such strange things to cover their guilt."The wealthy upper crust of Paragon Walk squeezed the mind-dulling monotony of friendships and marriage into embarrassments and silence. Trivialities and flaws were hidden behind a polished front. As much as propriety would permit, men were allowed to play their games. That is, until it lead to murder. A darker conflict drove this story. The he-said, she-said camaraderie that I was hoping to occur between Thomas and his wife, Charlotte, was ser...

"We are conceived in sin, and some of us never rise above it"I've read some reviews about this book and seen than many people complaint about Pitt not being a very good detective and so on. But don't you realize that, from the very first book, Pitt is not like others, for example, Poirot?... The real investigators in these series are Charlotte and Emily!!"Always was a bit too clever. Trouble is, he wasn't clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.""Success without envy was like snails

Third in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series in which Thomas does lots of police work and gets nowhere. Meanwhile Charlotte succeeds in solving the case although maybe not in the way she intended.I did not enjoy this one as much as the earlier two although it was still an entertaining read. I was surprised by the identity of the murderer but there were so many people it could have been! The ending was a little disappointing. Charlotte is a smart woman and I felt that she acted very out of chara...

This was another good historical mystery from Anne Perry. There was plenty of dirt to uncover in the lives of all the characters, and it kept me guessing all the way through. I was convinced I had it right up until the very end, and I didn't! But everything fit once I knew all the pieces. The ending was just a little abrupt - I could have done with even just a paragraph or two more to wind it down. (view spoiler)[And I still want to know who Alaric is! (hide spoiler)]

Perry writes the most amazing conversation among women. It is hard to imagine the stress of having to manage one's words, as these Victorian age characters did in conversations requiring multiple levels of meaning. Successful wives managed their husbands through clever and hidden strategies. Perry's books show tremendous insensitivity among the classes and even between station levels within classes. There seemed to be far less value in competence than in income regardless of how it was acquired....

Anne Perry's Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series – at least the two books I've read so far – is engaging on several levels: surely as mysteries, but also as explorations of the hypocrisies of gender, class and, to a lesser extent, ethnicity in 19th century London. Some of Perry's characters are caricatures, especially the characters that are likely to appear only in this book, but the central characters are bright, thoughtful, eccentric, and outspoken. Perry allows her characters to be confounded,

There has been a rape and murder in Inspector Thomas Pitt’s area; incongruously occurring in the upper-class area of Paragon Walk. It also happens to be the area where Charlotte’s sister, Emily, lives with her titled husband and Emily is terrified that the investigation will uncover unsavoury deeds involving George.Inspector Pitt’s investigations always do expose sordid personal details along with more benign secrets and no-one who moves in these circles is keen on having that happen. As a resul...

I hope this series improves soon; so far I don’t like it as well as the author’s William Monk mysteries, which were written later in her career. This book is very weak, and I’m not in the least impressed with Thomas Pitt’s sleuthing skills.The mystery concerns a young woman who has been raped and murdered. The Victorian social ill in the spotlight is the blame assigned to rape victims; such things do not happen to virtuous women.There is still very little here about Thomas and Charlotte’s life t...

Third in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the girl. Well, obviously she must have had low morals to have invited rape! How do people actually twist their minds to believe something like this? They are like a snarling pack of dogs. Ooh, that's ra...

This book was a really good mystery, but I found myself a little confused by everything going on in it and all of the possible suspects. I think there were probably 20 or more characters in the book, by my count, most of whom were possible suspects. I just had trouble keeping track of them all, let alone trying to suss out who the murderer was! Moreover, though Pitt is the lead investigator, the whole novel focused more on Charlotte and Emily, which I found kind of irritating. I think I'd like m...

Paragon Walk is book three in the Thomas Pitt Mystery series by Anne Perry. Inspector Thomas Pitt caught a case of the raped and death of a young woman in Paragon Walk. Inspector Thomas Pitt was not getting anywhere with the residence of Paragon Walk that his wife Charlotte decided with the help of her sister to investigate. However, the case deepens when another person dies. The readers of Paragon Walk will continue to follow Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to find out who the murder of Fanny Nash.I

Finished reading: June 3rd 2013 (view spoiler)[Paragon Walk is apparently the third book in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series set in Victorian London. I couldn't say I enjoyed this novel by Anne Perry, and I don't think it's because I haven't read the first two books in the series. For me the plot and the murder mystery itself lacked attention. It seemed like there were too many characters involved, and too much focus on the norms of high class society. I understand Perry wanted to show

If you like Victorian cozies and lovable characters, this book is for you.With the third in the Pitt series, the author, Anne Perry hits her stride. The story begins with a body in the morgue. The victim is slight, delicately featured, beautifully dressed, her arms bruised, her face barely touched by life. Fanny Nash is seventeen when she is stabbed and raped in Paragon Walk, a London neighborhood of impeccable pedigree, and the neighborhood, as luck would have it, of Charlotte’s sister, Emily,

Murder strikes the upper classes again and Inspector Thomas Pitt is assigned to the case. Which, of course, means that his wife Charlotte and her sister Emily (Lady Ashworth) will also be sleuthing among soirees and afternoon teas. This time it's a case of murder and rape when innocent Fanny Nash is killed in Paragon Walk. Described by Emily as "too innocuous to arouse passion," it's hard to believe any man felt strongly enough to attack and kill the young woman. But her death proves otherwise.

I started reading Anne Perry's mystery novels when I was in college. My older sister discovered them first and had purchased the entire Thomas & Charlotte Pitt series (to date) from Half.com. I stayed with her for a month one summer during break and devoured almost all that she had on her shelves.I stopped keeping up with the series at one point and have recently picked up where I left off and have also gone back to re-read the early books in the series.Paragon Walk is the 3rd book in this Victo...

This is book 3 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, I'm slowly going through this series and I really enjoyed the first 2 books. I had a bit of problem with this one and for me it didn't work as well as the other.In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, peer beneath the elegant masks of the well-born suspects and reveal that something ugly lurks be...