Cardington Crescent — Anne Perry

When womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, the shocked Cardington Crescent household's immediate concern is quieting the scandal as discreetly--and quickly--as possible. Unfortunately for March's wife Emily, that means accusing her of the murder.

But the family does not take into account Emily's beloved sister--who is none other than the indomitable Charlotte Pitt. Together, she and her husband Thomas take on the seemingly irreproachable, upper crust March clan and uncover a scandalous web of corruption and depravity that leads them from the elegant Crescent town house to the hideous London slums, from genteel society to murder--again.