Background
Charles Finch was born in 1980, in New York, New York, United States. He is the son of Mary Truitt and Mr. Finch Jr. and the grandson of American artist and writer Anne Truitt.
2017
3950 Newman Rd, Joplin, MO 64801, United States
Charles Finch at a book presentation at Missouri Southern State University.
2019
Charles Finch, Maureen Swingle, and Debbie McConnell at the Assistance League of St. Louis 2019 Authors Brunch.
180 Main St, Andover, MA 01810, United States
Phillips Academy where Charles Finch studied.
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University where Charles Finch studied.
Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
Merton College where Charles Finch received a Master of Arts degree.
(Charles Lenox jumps headlong into the detective business ...)
Charles Lenox jumps headlong into the detective business to help a friend in need in this enthralling first mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Blue-Death-Charles-Mysteries/dp/1250161649/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581924324&sr=1-1
2007
(In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a...)
In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle’s problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society.
https://www.amazon.com/September-Society-Charles-Lenox-Mysteries/dp/0312359780/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581924388&sr=1-1
2008
(It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, r...)
It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have just met with violent deaths – one shot, one throttled. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, which proves only more complicated as he digs deeper. However, he must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is fulfilling a lifelong dream: running for a Parliamentary seat. Once there, he gets a further shock when Lady Jane sends him a letter whose contents might threaten their nuptials.
https://www.amazon.com/Fleet-Street-Murders-Charles-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B003H3IOV4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Fleet+Street+Murders&qid=1581924694&s=books&sr=1-1
2009
(Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong ...)
Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong friend and new wife, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers both unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated. Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions and servants' quarter of Victorian London, Lenox gradually realizes that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Soon a suspect is arrested, but Lenox has his doubts. Desperately trying to balance the opening of Parliament and what he feels sure is a dark secret, he soon discovers that the killer is someone shockingly innocuous – who may be prepared to spill blood again, even a detective's.
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Mayfair-Mystery-Charles-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B003ZDO0KK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Stranger+in+Mayfair&qid=1581925184&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
(1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between Franc...)
1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission. Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds himself using not his new skills of diplomacy but his old ones: the ship’s second lieutenant is found dead on the voyage’s first night, his body cruelly abused. The ship’s captain begs the temporarily retired detective to join in the hunt for a criminal. Lenox finds the trail, but in the claustrophobic atmosphere on board, where nobody can come or go and everyone is a suspect, he has to race against the next crime – and also hope he won’t be the victim.
https://www.amazon.com/Burial-Sea-Charles-Lenox-Mysteries/dp/0312625081/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581925265&sr=1-1
2011
(Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career ...)
Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of regularly investigating the crimes of Victorian London now some years behind him, he plans a trip to his uncle's estate, Somerset, in the expectation of a few calm weeks to write an important speech. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms upon the local shops: broken windows, minor thefts, threatening scrawls.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Small-Hours-Charles-Mysteries/dp/1250011604/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581925336&sr=1-1
2012
(On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees...)
On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old protégé's client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old profession.
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Betrayal-Charles-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250011612/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581925411&sr=1-1
2013
(It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading priva...)
It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play the game as he once did. Then comes a chance to redeem himself, though at a terrible price: a friend, a member of Scotland Yard, is shot near Regent's Park. As Lenox begins to parse the peculiar details of the death – an unlaced boot, a days-old wound, an untraceable luggage ticket – he realizes that the incident may lead him into grave personal danger, beyond which lies a terrible truth. With all the humanity, glamor, and mystery that readers have come to love, the latest Lenox novel is a shining new confirmation of the enduring popularity of Charles Finch's Victorian series.
https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Murder-Charles-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250051304/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581925496&sr=1-1
2014
(After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an ol...)
After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Enchantments-Novel-Charles-Finch/dp/1250018714
2014
(It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the...)
It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for the quieter country life of his boyhood. Or so he thinks. Something strange is afoot in Markethouse: small thefts, books, blankets, animals, and more alarmingly a break-in at the house of a local insurance agent. As he and his brother investigate this accumulation of mysteries, Lenox realizes that something very strange and serious indeed may be happening, more than just local mischief.
https://www.amazon.com/Home-Nightfall-Charles-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250093643/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581925858&sr=1-1
2015
(Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from a...)
Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly disappeared. As boys they had shared a secret: a bequest from a mysterious benefactor had smoothed Leigh’s way into the world after the death of his father. Lenox, already with a passionate interest in detective work, made discovering the benefactor's identity his first case – but was never able to solve it.
https://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Charles-Lenox-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250070422/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581926134&sr=1-1
2016
(London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a n...)
London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime – and promising to kill again – Lenox is convinced that this is his chance to prove himself.
https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Water-Prequel-Charles-Mysteries/dp/1250139465/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581926203&sr=1-1
2018
(London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case...)
London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset, one of England’s most revered noblemen, for help. A painting of the Duke’s great-grandfather has been stolen from his private study. But the Duke’s concern is not for his ancestor’s portrait; hiding in plain sight nearby is another painting of infinitely more value, one that holds the key to one of the country’s most famous and best-kept secrets.
https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Man-Prequel-Charles-Mysteries/dp/1250311365/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581926292&sr=1-1
2019
(London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his t...)
London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a third-class car at Paddington Station is the body of a handsome young gentleman. He has no luggage, empty pockets, and no sign of identification on his person. And putting together the clues to the mystery of the man’s identity only raises more questions, when Lenox discovers that the crime has a significant connection to America.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Passenger-Prequel-Charles-Mysteries/dp/1250312205
2020
Charles Finch was born in 1980, in New York, New York, United States. He is the son of Mary Truitt and Mr. Finch Jr. and the grandson of American artist and writer Anne Truitt.
Charles Finch attended Phillips Academy. Later he studied at Yale University where he majored in English and History. Finch also studied at Merton College where he received a Master of Arts degree in Renaissance English Literature.
Charles Finch started writing at the age of 22 while in college. He published his first book A Beautiful Blue Death in 2007. It is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring Victorian gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox. Later Finch wrote twelve books that made up a series about Charles Lenox. In 2014, he wrote his first contemporary novel The Last Enchantments.
Charles Finch also 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 serves on the curatorial board of the art colony Ragdale and the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
(Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong ...)
2010(London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case...)
2019(Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from a...)
2016(It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading priva...)
2014(On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees...)
2013(It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, r...)
2009(Charles Lenox jumps headlong into the detective business ...)
2007(After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an ol...)
2014(It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the...)
2015(London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a n...)
2018(In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a...)
2008(Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career ...)
2012(1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between Franc...)
2011(London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his t...)
2020Charles Finch married Emily Popp on March 3, 2011.