I love the part with the dead body sitting in the audience at the funeral. ' There were dead bodies every where and I really was guessing right until the last few pages. It's a lovely portrayal of detective work, marriage, and domesticity.

The emphasis is more on Thomas and his investigating skills, whereas Charlotte's role is more sounding board (he still treats her as his intellectual equal) and shelter from the storm. I'll probably get back to the series again some day, or listen on audio book. While I didn't find them as compelling as the later Monk series, I still did like them, especially for the glimpse below stairs that is often given in the stories. ' I read many of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books in my pre-foodreads days, and found them to be quite a nice diversion/mystery.

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And this time I kept up! I wish their was more of Charlotte but I guess considering the era that wouldn't really be appropriate.' I liked the fact that the plot was not the normal run of the mill one that I have read over and over again. But as they dig their way closer the truth, they find themselves in danger from forces who will do anything to keep it buried. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Inspector Pitt begins his investigation within the proper channels while his intrepid wife Charlotte renews a tie from her past to get inside Lord Fitzroy-Hammond's world. While the doctor insists Lord Fitzroy-Hammond died a natural death, the Pitts find the situation anything but natural.

Even more shocking-it is the body of a peer of the realm who had been decently buried the week before. After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. Fourth in the series of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, Anne Perry's Resurrection Row explores the dark undercurrents that run through the lives of the idle rich in Victorian England.

Resurrection Row by Anne Perry