Stephen Robert Collins's Reviews > Twenty-One Days

I have read over 50+ books of Anne Perry from the early Pitt when his son was just a baby to his reading Wind in the Willows 20 years before Kenneth Grahame wrote it.
This is lot like her other series The Monk books with Rathbone the lawyer which set earlier in 1850s.
Here we have switched centuries to 1910 only four years from WWI & this the next generation of Pitts Daniel who has not followed in his father's footsteps but gone to the dark side of law a barrister often hated by the police.
Thomas is now Sir Thomas Pitt Head of Special Branch which for Daniel a conflict of interest.
Perry is one of few authors of Crime that has moved her stories forward & aged the Dective too unlike Poirot who never change or Miss Marpel.. ITV in the 1990s tried to make TV series of these books but only did one & it was washout I don't remember it much but do know it stunk & the actor was ghastly as Pitt. Shame as if done well they have huge amount of books
This first in series of books about Daniel .Russell Graves is on trial for bashing his wife's head in & burning her face he is horrible cold unlike man even by Kitteridge his defence & Daniel is his junior in the case .A case that goes to a guilty plea thus the title.
But for Daniel it unlucky it is not end but the beginning of his troubles , because Graves is not guilty he's been framed so Daniel trays found out who & Victor Narraway Thomas Pitt's former friend is in the frame & worse still so may be his Dad.!.
I don't care what Anne Perry says that this new series it's not because if don't know who Narraway is or secret societies from earlier Pitt books you be completely lost
& Perry will keep you in the dark till last few pages.
I remember one where the murder did not appear title three pages of end of the book & had not been in it title then .So expect the unexpected