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Brunswick Gardens

Charlotte & Thomas Pitt • Book 18

by Anne Perry

Narrated by Jenny Sterlin

3.98 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
★ 3.94 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 4.63 Audible (138)
17h 15m Released 2021 Mystery

About This Audiobook

Brunswick Gardens drops Superintendent Thomas Pitt into a Victorian intellectual controversy made violent, as the debate between Darwinism and faith within a respected clergyman's household ends with his beautiful research assistant dead at the foot of the stairs, three months pregnant. The suspects are all men of God, the setting is a world where evolutionary theory is still a genuine scandal, and the truth is buried in the kind of family devotion that can turn murderous.

Jenny Sterlin's narration gives the Victorian drawing-room setting its appropriate formality, and the intellectual arguments that drive the novel's conflict come through with enough clarity to feel genuinely consequential rather than merely historical. The Charlotte-and-Pitt series' recurring pleasure is Perry's ability to make the period's ideological battles feel as urgent as the crime itself.