Brunswick Gardens (Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Series #18)

Like the great Victorian novelists whose mantle she wears with such distinction, Anne Perry creates a rich and intimate world and fills it with remarkably vivid characters who experience the majesty—and shame—of the British Empire at its brilliant zenith. Now, in Brunswick Gardens, she explores the controversial birth of a philosophy that enflamed fiery debate—and possibly murder.

A century ago, Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution rocked the civilized world, and the outrag…