Charles Finch

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
2007 Large print
2008 Paperback
2009 German translation (Bella Indigo)
2010 Russian translation (Прекрасная голубая смерть)
2011 Audio
The September Society, 2008 Hardcover
2009 Paperback
2010 Large print
2010 German translation (September Society der Club der tödlichen Gentlemen)
2011 Audio
The Fleet Street Murders, 2009 Hardcover
2009 Large print
2010 Paperback
2011 Audio
A Stranger in Mayfair, 2010 Hardcover
2011 Audio
2011 Large print
2011 Paperback
A Burial at Sea, 2011 Hardcover
2011 Audio
2012 Paperback
2012 Large print
A Death in the Small Hours, 2012 Hardcover
2012 Audio
2013 Large print
2013 Paperback
An Old Betrayal, 2013 Hardcover
2013 Audio
2014 Large print
2014 Paperback
The Laws of Murder, 2014 Hardcover
2014 Audio
2015 Large print
2015 Paperback
Home by Nightfall, 2015 Hardcover
2016 Audio
2016 Large print
2016 Paperback
The Inheritance, 2016 Hardcover
2016 Audio
2017 Large print
2017 Paperback
The Woman in the Water (prequel), 2018 Hardcover
2018 Audio
2019 Paperback
The Vanishing Man (prequel), 2019 Hardcover
2019 Audio
2021 Paperback
The Last Passenger (prequel), 2020 Hardcover
2020 Audio
2021 Paperback
An Extravagant Death, 2021 Hardcover
2021 Audio
Other work
The Last Enchantments, 2014 Hardcover
Paperback
Large print
Audio
What Just Happened?, 2021
References
External links
St. Martin's Author Profile
Questions & Answers with Charles Finch
1980 births
American mystery novelists
21st-century American novelists
Living people
Writers from New York City
Phillips Academy alumni
Yale University alumni
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
American expatriates in England
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from New York (state)