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Anne Perry's Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series is holding my interest so far -- though this rating should really be a 3.5 -- but I'm waiting for her to put all the pieces together.

In "Paragon Walk," she strains too hard to hide the murderer, resulting in an unsatisfying conclusion that really doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at the same she continues to develop her main characters. She also continues her critique of the rigid class structure of Victorian England, which is presumably casting the same shade on the Great Britain in 1981, when she wrote this book.

References to "lack of breeding" as a cause of certain actions rings false to our ears, though of course in a different sense it's used by 21st century racists to justify their prejudices.

But this series is primarily supposed to supply fun reads, and so far, so good -- though I just have a feeling Perry can do better.