Brunswick Gardens, Anne Perry
Brunswick Gardens, Anne Perry
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Brunswick Gardens

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 16 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/07/2021


Synopsis

In London’s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood—a “new
woman” whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death,

Superintendent Thomas Pitt is as certain as he can be that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter? His handsome curate? Or his son, a fervent Roman Catholic? Pitt and
his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth—or less than justice.

About Anne Perry

Sometimes the personal story of a particular author seems almost as intriguing as the books they write. Such is the life of British author Anne Perry (aka Juliet Marion Hulme). As a child Hulme was very ill with tuberculosis and ended up being fostered out by a family in the Caribbean. She did get better, and the family moved to a private island in New Zealand, where she describes her life as a Swiss family Robinson type existence. She became ill again and during her bouts of illness through her teen years, she missed most of her childhood education. However, her mother had prepared her by teaching her how to read and write by the time she was four. Her heart always seemed to be in writing.

At the age of 15, Juliet and her best friend plotted and killed her friend's mother. The three went for a walk in the park and Hulme dropped a stone, causing the mother to bend over to pick it up, and her friend hit her own mother on the head with a half brick. They had planned on the strike killing her, but they had to strike her 20 times before she was dead. The girls were put on trial and each served five years in prison. It is said that they never saw each other again after being released. For many years, nobody connected author Anne Perry as the teen murderer, Juliet Hulme. In 1994, the film Heavenly Creatures, portrayed Hulme and her friend Pauline Parker with characters being played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey respectively.

Perry's genre of writing covers Victorian Era Detective fiction for the most part. Her novels have been centered around two main characters, Thomas Pitt and William Monk. She has published 47 novels and several collections of stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenya on November 29, 2010

This was my first Anne Perry and first mystery in a decade. Wow. Beautifully written. This was NOT action-packed by any stretch of the imagination; the mystery didn't seem to be the real agenda here. It was more a character portrait; a study of human behavior with the mystery as the backdrop. Perry......more

Goodreads review by LUNA on January 25, 2022

Que bien me lo paso con estas historias Es la primera vez que leo a la autora y tengo ganas de seguir con ella. En casa de un erudito religioso ha habido una muerte, la joven traductora esta muerte, ella era feminista que luchaba por el boto de la mujer y por el equilibrio de poder entre hombre y muje......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on May 30, 2014

The latest Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery for me (I’ve reached the point where I only pick them up occasionally) was Brunswick Gardens. I’m a fan of all of the novel series by Anne Perry, but the husband and wife sleuthing team of Thomas and Charlotte has generally been my favorite. Brunswick Gar......more

Goodreads review by Tgordon on April 11, 2023

This was slower than most for me. I’m determined to finish this series but honestly it’s getting harder.......more