Darn. Was hoping that the first book in the series about Thomas & Charlotte Pitt's son Daniel was going to be the start of something new for me to love from Anne Perry. Sadly, it was not a fit for me.

This wasn't a bad book, it just wasn't on the level that the Thomas Pitt series was, for me, anyway.

Part of what I loved about Thomas and Charlotte was how their differences worked well together to offset the seriousness of the gritty world they lived in and the murders they investigated. There was always a balance of the serious and the everyday that gave those books charm. Daniel, because he is on his own, is missing that balance, which made this a very heavy and dark story all the way to a little past the halfway point, which is when I gave up on this.

I also missed the colourful cast of supporting characters from Thomas & Charlotte's world in Daniel's. Their maid, Aunt Vespasia, etc. really added variety and sparkle to that series, and again, it's just Daniel here which limits the opportunity to build a diverse world to draw in a reader.

As I said, not a bad book, just no comparison for me to Thomas & Charlotte, which may not be fair, but as that series was what got me to try this new one, it was kind of inevitable that the two would be compared. I won't be continuing with the new series. Didn't grab me.