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The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab was an odd sight indeed. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew.

In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods.

Late one night, a blazing inferno destroys the home of a well-to-do English doctor. Tragically, the man's wife perishes in the flames.

Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors.

Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a

When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists are the culprits.

As suspenseful as it is heartwarming, set in Jerusalem, the latest Christmas novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry is the perfect holiday treat.

Queen Victoria herself presents the head of England's top investigative force, Thomas Pitt, with his most high stakes case yet in the thirty-second installment of the New York Times bestsellin

When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he t

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series.

In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered.

When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate.

The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consci