Resurrection Row

Onlookers stare at an impossible scene: a dead man is propped up on the driver's seat of a hansom cab, and he turns out to be a nobleman, a peer of the realm. Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte find the spectacle absurd. Why would anyone dig up Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond, a gentleman who had already been laid to rest with proper ceremony?

A physician maintains that the old lord died of natural causes. Scotland Yard's investigators see nothing ordinary in the grisly events that followed his burial, and the Pitts must unravel what someone has done to him and why.

Set in Victorian London, this is the fourth novel in Anne Perry's Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series, which pairs a dogged policeman with a sharp-minded wife who refuses to stay out of the case.