Triple Jeopardy (Daniel Pitt #2) by Anne Perry

Triple Jeopardy by Anne Perry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars?

Really enjoyed this book.

Jemima with her husband Patrick, is home from America for a visit and they want Daniel's help in seeing that Philip Sidney is punished for attacking Rebecca Thorwood in America, but did he? And since he claimed diplomatic immunity how can they bring him to justice. When Sidney is charged with embezzling funds from the embassy Daniel has the unenviable job of defending him. But Daniel soon comes to believe that Philip Sidney is innocent of the crimes he is accused of. But who wants to destroy Philip Sidney's credibility and why?

After questioning Rebecca it soon becomes apparent that her family is lying. Rebecca never recognized her attacker and her Father who claims he recognized Philip Sidney in the hall, wasn't actually there it was his wife who actually saw the "attacker" and claimed it was Sidney. With Miriam's help Daniel is able to prove that Sidney's signature was forged on many of the documents that supposedly proved the embezzlement at the embassy, but again why pin the embezzlement of petty cash on Sidney. What does he know that is a danger to someone? And WHO is it a danger too?

Slowly with Miriam's help, Daniel begins to see that the stakes are higher than he thought and an ugly picture of treason begins to come into focus. Daniel and Kitteridge fight desperately to prove Sidney's innocence and in the final moments an long-simmering affair comes to light and the final key in the treasonous plot is revealed leaving Sidney's innocence proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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