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Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic. He has written a series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England, as well as literary fiction and numerous essays and book reviews. Life and career Finch was born in New York City the son of the art critic Charlie Finch. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Yale University, where he majored in English and History. He also holds a master's degree in Renaissance English Literature from Merton College, Oxford. He is the grandson of American artist and writer Anne Truitt. His first published novel, A Beautiful Blue Death, introduced gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox. The book was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007 and was nominated for the Agatha Award for best new mystery of 2007. The Fleet Street Murders came out in 2009 and was nominated for the Nero Award. The Woman in the Water, released in 2018, is a prequel presenting the beginning of Lenox’s career in detection. The series is published by St. Martin's Minotaur, a division of St. Martin's Press. Finch's first contemporary novel, The Last Enchantments, was published by St. Martin's Press in early 2014. He has written for The New York Times and Slate and regularly writes essays and criticism for The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, the Guardian, the Chicago Tribune and USA Today. He was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, losing to Alexandra Schwartz of The New Yorker. He won the award in 2017. Finch serves on the curatorial board of the arts colony Ragdale and the board of the National Book Critics Circle. Bibliography Charles Lenox series A Beautiful Blue Death, 2007 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-35977-5 2007 Large print ISBN 978-0-7862-9921-8 2008 Paperback ISBN 978-0-312-38607-8 2009 German translation (Bella Indigo) ISBN 978-3-404-15989-5 2010 Russian translation (Прекрасная голубая смерть) ISBN 978-5-17-052226-2 2011 Audio ISBN 978-1-4526-5454-6 The September Society, 2008 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-35978-2 2009 Paperback ISBN 978-0-312-56494-0 2010 Large print ISBN 978-1-60285-666-0 2010 German translation (September Society der Club der tödlichen Gentlemen) ISBN 978-3-404-16378-6 2011 Audio ISBN 978-1-4526-5455-3 The Fleet Street Murders, 2009 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-56551-0 2009 Large print ISBN 978-1-60285-655-4 2010 Paperback ISBN 978-0-312-65027-8 2011 Audio ISBN 978-1-4526-5456-0 A Stranger in Mayfair, 2010 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-62506-1 2011 Audio ISBN 978-1-4526-5457-7 2011 Large print ISBN 978-1-61173-080-7 2011 Paperback ISBN 978-0-312-61695-3 A Burial at Sea, 2011 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-62508-5 2011 Audio ISBN 978-1-4526-5458-4 2012 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-0814-5 2012 Large print ISBN 978-1-6117-3321-1 A Death in the Small Hours, 2012 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-01160-2 2012 Audio ISBN 978-1-6240-6152-3 2013 Large print ISBN 978-1-6117-3641-0 2013 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-3149-5 An Old Betrayal, 2013 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-2500-1161-9 2013 Audio ISBN 978-1-6240-6777-8 2014 Large print ISBN 978-1-6117-3961-9 2014 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-4910-0 The Laws of Murder, 2014 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-05130-1 2014 Audio ISBN 978-1-4272-4365-2 2015 Large print ISBN 978-1-6289-9420-9 2015 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-6744-9 Home by Nightfall, 2015 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-07041-8 2016 Audio ISBN 978-1-5012-6269-2 2016 Large print ISBN 978-1-6289-9974-7 2016 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-9364-6 The Inheritance, 2016 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-07042-5 2016 Audio ISBN 978-1-5012-6275-3 2017 Large print ISBN 978-1-6832-4280-2 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2501-3019-8 The Woman in the Water (prequel), 2018 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-13946-7 2018 Audio ISBN 978-1-5414-1522-5 2019 Paperback ISBN 978-1-250-13947-4 The Vanishing Man (prequel), 2019 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-31136-8 2019 Audio ISBN 978-1-250-31820-6 2021 Paperback ISBN 978-1-250-31137-5 The Last Passenger (prequel), 2020 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-250-31220-4 2020 Audio ISBN 978-1-250-26117-5 2021 Paperback ISBN 978-1-250-31221-1 An Extravagant Death, 2021 Hardcover ISBN 9781250767134 2021 Audio ISBN 9781250767134 Other work The Last Enchantments, 2014 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-2500-1871-7 Paperback ISBN 978-1-2500-6325-0 Large print ISBN 978-1-4272-4365-2 Audio ISBN 978-1-4272-4138-2 What Just Happened?, 2021 References External links St. Martin's Author Profile Questions & Answers with Charles Finch . Discover the Charles Finch popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Charles Finch books.
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Inheritors of the Earth
Chris D. ThomasHuman activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world...
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The Woman in the Water
Charles FinchThis chilling new mystery in the USA Today bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox’s very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set hi...
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The White Crow
Cynthia PealeAmateur sleuths Caroline and Addington Ames venture to “the other side”–the world of restless and vengeful spirits–to solve some very real fleshandblood crimes in Victorian Boston ...
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Island
Jason ChinCharles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How ...
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Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”Entertainment WeeklyThe career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes ...
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The Vanishing Man
Charles Finch“Fiction readers who crush on blueblooded British detectives will fall hard for Victorianera sleuth Charles Lenox." The Washington PostFrom the critically acclaimed and USA Today b...
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The Mystery of the Stolen Brides
Robin SquireIt is the summer of 1891 and a young, beautiful bride is snatched from her wedding, leaving her guests shocked and her new husband distraught. A search is hurriedly mounted, but as...
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The White Crow
Cynthia PealeWhen the lights come on after a séance in the parlor of Victorian Boston’s most celebrated spiritualist, a pillar of the community lies dead. The world of restless and vengeful spi...
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The Dark Vineyard
Martin WalkerThe second installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police: When a bevy of winemakers descend on SaintDenis the idyllic t...
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Black Diamond
Martin WalkerThe third installment in thed elightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.Something dangerous is afoot in St. Denis. In the space of a few weeks, th...
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
Stephen MossFrom “a captivating storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have...
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What Just Happened
Charles FinchA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR With unwavering humanity and lightfooted humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID19 p...
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A Stranger in Mayfair
Charles FinchIn Charles Finch's A Stranger in Mayfair, the next enthralling installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries, detective Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new c...
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The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two
Daniel KrausFrom the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the second and final book in the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) epic tale about a murdered t...
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The Death of Colonel Mann
Cynthia PealeBehind the curtained windows of Victorian Boston is a world of passion, scandal ... and murder.In life, he was the most despised man in Boston, publisher of the town's scurrilous g...
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A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth GeorgeTo this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a ...
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Billions of Years, Amazing Changes
Laurence Pringle & Steve JenkinsThis highly engaging exploration of the concept of evolution lays out the history of life on earthwhat we know and how we know it. Ever since Charles Darwin revealed his landmark i...
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A Death in the Small Hours
Charles FinchFrom Charles Finch, the critically acclaimed author of A Beautiful Blue Death and A Burial at Sea, comes A Death in the Small Hoursan intriguing installment in the Charles Lenox My...
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Fossils, Finches and Fuegians
Richard KeynesA narrative account of Darwin’s historic 4year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s that combines the adventure and excitement of Alan Moor...
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Well-Schooled in Murder
Elizabeth George“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”Entertainment Weekly When thirteenyearold Matthew What...
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A Burial at Sea
Charles Finch"Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in Finch's accomplished fifth whodunit set in Victorian England ... the best in the series to date."Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly In A ...