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A review by bjerz
Bedford Square by Anne Perry
2.0
I have read a number of Anne Perry books and have enjoyed them. Bedford Square is not my favorite.
Set in dreary Victorian England amid horrific poverty, an uncaring and clueless upper-class and endless rain, this story of a blackmailer who demands no money is drawn out and repetitive. The main character, a police detective superintendent named Thomas Pitt, knows one of the victims well and works hard to figure out who is the blackmailer. But clues are slim and the list of victims, who would rather die than admit they are, grows longer each day. The personal drama becomes boring in repetition and the end is quick and unfulfilling.
Set in dreary Victorian England amid horrific poverty, an uncaring and clueless upper-class and endless rain, this story of a blackmailer who demands no money is drawn out and repetitive. The main character, a police detective superintendent named Thomas Pitt, knows one of the victims well and works hard to figure out who is the blackmailer. But clues are slim and the list of victims, who would rather die than admit they are, grows longer each day. The personal drama becomes boring in repetition and the end is quick and unfulfilling.