The queen of Victorian crime, New York Times bestseller Anne Perry, returns with the first in an exciting new generation of Pitt novels. Daniel Pitt has twenty-one days until a man is hanged for murder. . .
The much-loved Commander Thomas Pitt novels are followed here by the start of a new series, shifting focus to Pitt's son Daniel. A biographer claims to have been framed for the murder of his wife, facing the gallows for this crime, and barrister Daniel has 21 days to uncover the truth.