Death of a Stranger

When a senior barrister from Daniel Pitt's own firm is found murdered in the Mile End district of East London, far from anywhere his professional life should have taken him, Daniel and his colleague Toby Kitteridge are tasked with investigating quietly before the police can unearth anything that might embarrass the firm. Their inquiry leads them through brothels, opium dens, and finally to the offices of a powerful shipbuilder whose ties to Britain's naval expansion program make the case suddenly a matter of national interest. Anne Perry's fourth Daniel Pitt novel weaves Edwardian domestic crime into the rising tide of pre-World War I geopolitics.

Samuel Roukin narrates with the energy and urgency the Daniel Pitt series, which moves faster than Perry's older Victorian series, demands. His voice gives Daniel's youthful determination a credible authority, and the novel's final escalation to the highest levels of British power lands with appropriate force. At just under ten hours, Death with a Double Edge is a strong mid-series installment.