Bedford Square

Name: Bedford Square
Rating: 3.99 (4511 reviews)
Author: Anne Perry

Charlotte & Thomas Pitt • Book 19

by Anne Perry

Narrated by Jenny Sterlin

3.99 ABR Score (4.5K ratings)

★ 3.94 Goodreads (4.4K) ★ 4.73 Audible (101)

14h 36m Released 2021 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Nineteen books in, and Anne Perry still makes Victorian drawing rooms feel more dangerous than any dark alley.

Great if you want: a mystery where blackmail and social ruin cut deeper than violence
Listening experience: slow-burn and cerebral — dread builds through propriety, not action
Narration: Sterlin's composed precision mirrors the suffocating restraint of Perry's world
Skip if: you're new to the series — backstory rewards longtime readers most

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About This Audiobook

Bedford Square places a freshly dead body on the doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne, who denies all connection to the victim despite the discovery of his snuffbox in the dead man's pocket. Superintendent Pitt, who must tread lightly around a man whose silence could trigger something far worse than one murder, enlists Charlotte as a full partner in a case that implicates the British establishment's most vulnerable secrets.

Jenny Sterlin's narration of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series brings the Victorian period its appropriate atmosphere. Her voice navigates the social comedy of the drawing-room sequences and the genuine danger of the investigation with equal facility, and the partnership between Thomas and Charlotte, which distinguishes the series from conventional police procedurals, comes through in the warmth Sterlin brings to their shared scenes.