This is a character driven book. I reviewed a free copy on Kindle for Netgalley.. . This author doesn’t disappoint... intrigue... mystery...foreshadowing...who did it? Kept me guessing almost to the end. A quick read for a snowy afternoon. Try it.

I have been a fan of Anne Perry's books for years and I have to say Daniel Pitt may be my favorite of all her series! Death with a Double Edge is an excellent book with one of Daniel's colleagues being murdered and he is assigned the task of finding out if it is a previous case that led to the death. There are several challenges including Marcus fford Croft as his memory is failing him, the involvement of Daniel's father, Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, and a threat to his mother, Charlotte. The plot is so well done and the involvement of the elder Pitts is a bonus. Daniel's education and growth throughout the books is interesting and I look forward to see what his next adventure is. Thank you to #NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy of #DeathwithaDoubleEdge.

This new entry in Anne Perry's series featuring Daniel Pitt also involves his parents, Thomas and Charlotte, with whom long-time readers of her work will be familiar. While I devoured the previous books featuring his parents, this and its predecessors that focus on Daniel are not nearly as compelling. Perry has not yet really developed Daniel's character and he reads less like an adult and more like a caricature of a young lawyer who runs home to his parents when trouble knocks on the chamber's doors. It's time for young Pitt to become his own man and for Perry to enhance his presence by surrounding him with some interesting new characters and giving him confounding mysteries to solve on his own. Death with a Double Edge starts out slowly, sometimes even going over the same ground. But once it gets going, the action continues until nearly the end, with the "big reveal" coming just a tad too early to hold one's interest until the story ends. Regrettably, the only way our of some of the story's situations calls for actions that are just too coincidental and much too unlikely. Nonetheless, Perry gives the reader a good yarn and those who are not yet tired of either series will find some reward in Death With a Double Edge.

304 pages

5 stars

Anne Perry has another winner on her hands. I really like this new Daniel Pitt series, and we still get to drop in on Thomas and Charlotte.

Daniel gets the decidedly unenviable task of identifying a body at the morgue. He is startled to learn that it is a colleague of his from the law chambers.

Daniel and colleague and friend Kitteridge decide to look into the murder. What they discover is layers of murder, blackmail, corruption and kidnapping.

This book is very well written and plotted as are all of Ms. Perry's novels. The transitions are smooth and flawless. The pacing is very good as the pages fly by. This can easily be a standalone book. It has interesting information about the major characters, but not so much that it intrudes on the story line. Very well done, Ms. Perry. I have been a fan for years and will continue to be one.

I want to thank NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine/Ballantine for forwarding to me a copy of this most remarkable book for me to read, enjoy and review. The opinions here are my own.

I have really enjoyed the other books in this historical mystery series and this book was a great addition. This book can be read as a stand-alone, though previous books will give more insights into the characters. This was a well-written mystery.