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1) Stone kiss
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LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, rush to New York when one of his relatives is killed and another goes missing, and find themselves in an area of the city where their survival depends on a vengeful lone wolf.
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A crime novel set in Victorian London in which the family of a young murdered aristocrat, whose corpse was found in a London sewer, refuse to answer the police questions. However, Inspector Pitt and his wife determine to unravel the mystery behind the family facade. Follows BETHLEHEM ROAD.
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When George March, a womanizing aristocrat, is found dead over his morning coffee, his wife Emily is accused of murder. But Emily's sister is none other than the indomitable Charlotte Pitt. Together, she and her husband, Inspector Thomas Pitt, take on the seemingly irreproachable March clan - and uncover an insidious web of corruption and depravity that leads them from the elegant Crescent town house to the hideous London slumbs, from genteel society...
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It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons-- so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queen's confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majesty's request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems...
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Set in Oscar Wilde's London in 1891, Perry's new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body...
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In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End's most dangerous...
11) Bedford Square
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A man found dead at the door of General Brandon Balantyne leads Inspector Pitt and his wife Charlotte to a much larger conspiracy.
12) Street dreams
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2003.
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When Cindy Decker finds an abandoned newborn in a rubbish bin, she ultimately must turn to her father Peter Decker for help in solving the crime.
13) Sanctuary
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In the comfortable suburbs of Los Angeles, an affluent Jewish family, whose father's trade was diamonds, disappears. Sergeant Peter Decker senses danger that stems from a network of international politics.
15) Belgrave Square
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When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office.
16) Day of atonement
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When Sergeant Peter Decker agrees to spend his honeymoon with his wife's parents in Brooklyn, he discovers a teenage friend of the family has disappeared and they need his help.
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When a doctor is found brutally murdered, even the neighborhood's most hardened residents are stunned. But three more bodies are found, killed the same inexpert way, and Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte race against time to find the killer, as a treacherous mystery unfolds. No one, not the lowest brand of ruffian or the most established aristocrat, will come out unscathed.
18) Pentecost Alley
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A prostitute is murdered in Victorian London, strangled with her own stocking. Superintendent Pitt obtains a confession from a pimp who is promptly executed. Pitt gets a shock when a second murder follows, bearing the hallmarks of the first. Coincidence, or was Pitt party to a miscarriage of justice? By the author of Traitors Gate.
19) The forgotten
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The Deckers' synagogue is vandalised, and the act is connected to a deeply disturbed teen.
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