"Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin
Affair is breathtaking from start to stop." --The Wall Street
Journal
A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick * A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery
Book of the Year * A Reader's Digest Best Summer Book * A Forbes.com
Best Historical Novel of the Summer
Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of
2019--an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the
controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string
of unspeakable crimes.
London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen
Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and
only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly
surmises that the crimes are connected. Was Victoria really the
assassin's target? Or were both crimes part of an even more sinister
plot?
Field's investigation soon exposes a shocking conspiracy: the
publication of Charles Darwin's controversial On the Origin of Species
has set off a string of terrible crimes--murder, arson, kidnapping.
Witnesses describe a shadowy figure with lifeless, coal-black eyes. As
the investigation takes Field from the dangerous alleyways of London to
the hallowed halls of Oxford, the list of possible conspirators grows,
and the body count escalates. And as he edges closer to the dastardly
madman called the Chorister, he uncovers dark secrets that were meant to
remain forever hidden.
