[.ca] Buckingham Palace Gardens (ISBN 159600276X)

Not Great:
If you're a mystery fan like me of Anne Perry's Victorian series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, you've been waiting with baited breath for this series latest, Buckingham Palace Gardens. Be advised NOT to hold your breath any longer or waste your time reading this latest novel. It's rather boring, hugely repetitive and not all that suspenseful. If you like Charlotte Pitt, you'll only find her on half of one page. So much for a great team. The hero of Buckingham Palace Gardens is really their loyal maid, Gracie, now about 20, who goes undercover at Buckingham Palace to aid her master, Mr. Pitt of Special Services, working there to solve a murder. It's really Gracie's book. She solves pretty much everything. But then you will have solved things long before Pitt, here a rather plodding figure. Too bad. I really looked forward to reading this book. I like the series, the characters, the setting in time and place. Imagine a murder at Buck House. Enter the Prince of Wales, the aristocracy. Nope. Forget it. Read her trilogy of World War I novels. Murder, suspense, intrigue, and excellent writing make these books well worth reading. Anne Perry wrote this series with heart and a sense of the history of WWI. (Her grandfather fought in the Great War.) With Buckingham Palace Gardens, Perry writes with a heavy hand, far too many interrogative sentences. on every blasted page and forgot how good a writer she can be.

Another Winner:
Anne Perry's books are delicious. I love reading the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series. I love the characters. I want to visit them. The murders are in such detail, it is if you are actually there. I have read every one of the books in this series & have enjoyed every one. You won't regret reading this book