Murder on the Serpentine is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

BALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Headline Publishing Group, London, in 2016.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Perry, Anne, author.

Title: Murder on the serpentine : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel / Anne Perry.

Description: First U.S. Edition. | New York : Ballantine Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016042289| ISBN 9780425284988 (hardcover) |

ISBN 9780425284995 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Police—England—London—Fiction. | Police spouses—Fiction. | Police—England—London—Fiction. | Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837-1901—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6066.E693 M87 2017 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016042289

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