The Bedlam Detective
by Stephen Gallagher (Crown, 2012); audiobook read by Jonathan Keeble (Oakhill, 2014)
If it weren’t so effortlessly engaging, Gallagher’s historical murder mystery novel might be deemed a slow burner. Moving with a grace and eloquence befitting of the setting (England, 1912), The Bedlam Detective brings about a spiralling investigation of gentrified privilege and madness.