SOURCE: A review of Brunswick Gardens, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 26, 1998, p. D5.

In the following review, Curnin lauds Perry's strong characterization in Brunswick Gardens.

The mystery in Brunswick Gardens is simple: who pushed Unity Bellwood down the staircase, causing her death? The answer is not as simple as Anne Perry takes us back to a time in the late 1890s London, where intelligent women were forced to the sidelines, it was legal to beat a disobedient wife and Darwin's theory of evolution was just coming to light.

Inspector Thomas Pitt, a recurring Perry character, has the unenviable task of investigating the murder of Bellwood, an employee in the home of the Rev. Ramsay Parmenter. At first it seems clear cut; Miss Bellwood was heard to cry out "No, no, Reverend" before she was found at the foot of the stairs, But no one really believes such a...