Death in the Devil’s Acre

Author: Anne Perry
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 ou….Read More
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