Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
by Kate Griffin (Faber & Faber, 2013); audiobook read by Nicole Davis (Isis, 2016)
Kitty Peck is a well-developed character and the story is steeped in the grime, squalor and injustice of London’s poorer areas in the 1880s, yet beneath these trappings the mystery is very slight. Such realisations as Kitty makes come like pulled teeth.