Publisher’s Weekly Review of The Darwin Affair

I’m pleased to share with you the starred review The Darwin Affair received from Publisher’s Weekly below: Mason, author of the YA novel The Last Synapsid, makes his adult debut with an audacious historical thriller. In 1860, Chief Det. Insp. Charles...

The Darwin Affair Kirkus Review

The Darwin Affair has received a rave review from Kirkus! Read below: The real-life Victorian police detective who was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ Mr. Bucket serves as the main character in a fast-paced historical mystery. Although this is Mason’s...

Body For Sale

The Victorian Era was a blizzard of societal change, an avalanche, a cascade, a tsunami.  We look on the age as prim and tightly buttoned-up, but perhaps it had to be because so many things were unraveling at such a rapid pace.  Manners, morals and attire...