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AN EXTRAVAGANT DEATH

Jun 04, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

AudioFile Magazine — The latest installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries takes our beloved detective away from his hearth, home, and newborn daughter on a diplomatic trip to turn-of-the-century America. Over time, Langton has perfected the transitions between Lenox's aristocratic way of speaking and working-class British accents. Langton's American accents, by contrast, do not roll off his tongue with such ease and can at times sound slightly nasally.
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In politics and novels, Stacey Abrams is 'definitely a plotter'

May 11, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — On the Shelf While Justice Sleeps By Stacey AbramsWhile Justice SleepsIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Who knew competence could be so electrifying? “I love Stacey Abrams because she gets things done,” a friend told me as I was preparing to write this article. Except she didn’t use the word “things.”A lot of people on the left feel the same way.
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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Obit by Victoria Chang

Mar 01, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

Literary Hub — Over the next month we’ll be sharing the National Book Critics Circle’s appreciations of this year’s NBCC Award finalists. The awards will be presented virtually on March 25th, 7pm EST. *Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon)Very few books are straightforwardly about death, but Obit, by the poet Victoria Chang, is one of them.
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Obit by Victoria Chang: 2020 Poetry Finalist

Mar 01, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

bookcritics.org — Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon)Very few books are straightforwardly about death, but Obit, by the poet Victoria Chang, is one of them.
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Review: Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" among his best

Feb 23, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — On the Shelf Klara and the Sun By Kazuo IshiguroKnopf: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. How will computers remember this time? Assuming they achieve consciousness in some form — what’s usually called the singularity — then we are currently inhabiting their prehistory.
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Review: 'An Extravagant Death,' by Charles Finch

Feb 19, 2021  | 
By Chris Hewitt, Charles Finch

Star Tribune — As a kid reading Agatha Christie's novels, I longed for the well-traveled writer who set her mysteries all over the world, to ship Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple to America to badger Yanks and solve a puzzle-like string of murders. It never happened but I am delighted to report that Charles Finch, whose books usually are set in England in the years before Christie's 1890 birth, has 12-year-old me covered.
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AN EXTRAVAGANT DEATH

Feb 16, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch, Marie E. Benedict, C.J. Box

Kirkus Reviews — by C.J. Box ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020 Once again, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett gets mixed up in a killing whose principal suspect is his old friend Nate Romanowski, whose attempts to live off the grid keep breaking down in a series of felony charges. If Judge Hewitt hadn’t bent over to pick up a spoon that had fallen from his dinner table, the sniper set up nearly a mile from his house in the gated community of the Eagle Mountain Club would have ended his life.
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Book Review: 'An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery' By Charles Finch

Jan 28, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

Red Carpet Crash — Home > TV > Book Review: ‘An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery’ By Charles Finch RedCarpetCrash January 28, 20212021-01-28T05:25:19-06:002021-01-28T05:58:29-06:00 Having finished his 3 book prequel series on the young life of Charles Lenox, author Charles Finch is back with the next fun novel in the series. Fast forward to 1878 and Charles is married to Lady Jane with two young daughters. He served in Parliment for a few years but is not back to private detective work with his own...
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Win A Copy Of The Paperback 'The Last Passenger: A Charles Lennox Novel' By Charles Finch

Jan 09, 2021  | 
By Charles Finch

Red Carpet Crash — Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of The Paperback ‘The Last Passenger: A Charles Lennox Novel’ By Charles Finch RedCarpetCrash January 9, 20212021-01-09T03:57:38-06:002021-01-09T05:27:22-06:00 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...
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It's the twilight of the Jonathans, and Jonathan Lethem feels fine

Nov 05, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — On the Shelf The Arrest By Jonathan LethemEcco: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The Jonathans! Suddenly it seems like a long time ago. They arrived between 1995 and 2005, novelists tasked with relieving the graying Roth and Updike as our frontline reporters from the psyche of the American male. It was a job we were sure would last forever.
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A sublime ‘Summer’

Aug 13, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

The Boston Globe — But who could have predicted that there would be so many current events! Smith began the first of the novels before Brexit, before the election of Donald Trump, before the pandemic, before the worldwide protests this spring. She must have sensed a strange pulse quickening in the world as she began; perhaps it was partly luck.
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The Exhilarating, Dangerous World of Helen Eustis

Jul 15, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

CrimeReads — Halfway down the author bio of my old Penguin edition of The Horizontal Man, by Helen Eustis, comes this extremely candid paragraph:Helen Eustis began writing at eleven and has kept it up to the present day except for a brief period of schizophrenia when she tried to devote herself to housewifery rather more extensively than was compatible with her abilities in that field. So much of what makes The Horizontal Man remarkable is present in this fleeting little passage.
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Charlie Kaufman went from lauded screenwriter to flop director. His new novel hits back

Jul 06, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — Is Charlie Kaufman OK? Not especially. “I’m in a temporary apartment in New York — currently by myself. It’s lonely,” he said in a conversation late last month. “It’s stressful.” He paused to think for a moment, then added, “The world is a worrisome place.”So it is, something Kaufman has been pointing out since before the turn of the millennium.
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You're probably wrong about Ottessa Moshfegh

Jun 04, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — I first met the novelist Ottessa Moshfegh a little over a week into quarantine, in a small park in Pasadena not far from where she lives. We talked first across the social distance of a hiking path and then, when it started raining, on the phone from our two parked cars. In retrospect it was touching to have thought at the time that this scene would hold its tension, maybe even gain in eloquence and meaning,over the months that followed. Instead it only seems banal.
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Mystery Scene

Apr 16, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch, Joseph Scarpato

Mystery Scene Magazine — It’s a rainy, gloomy night in London in 1855 when private detective Charles Lenox is invited by “possibly the worst Scotland Yard detective” to help check out a dead body aboard a train that recently pulled into Paddington Station. A stabbing with no apparent witnesses, the young man’s clothing has been tampered with to remove all of the labels that might present a clue as to his identity. This is the beginning of a complex and dangerous case with serious international political overtones.
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Mystery author Charles Finch gets stoned, masters Steely Dan and becomes a "candle guy"

Mar 31, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Los Angeles Times — The Times asked authors to track what they do in isolation. Today, Charles Finch, author of the Charles Lenox mystery series, finds he likes Norah Jones, learns a Steely Dan solo, reads Kierkegaard and becomes a “candle guy.”March 20Today’s Friday, which marks a week at home so far. I’m with a small assortment of family members, all suddenly in possession of robust opinions about what should be for dinner, since it’s the main event of the day other than brooding and phone calls.
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Review | Colum McCann’s ‘Apeirogon’ takes an elliptical approach to the unending Middle East conflict

Mar 10, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch, Colum McCann

The Washington Post — The passionate and profligately gifted Irish maximalist Colum McCann, whose novel “Let the Great World Spin” won the 2009 National Book Award, likes to use nouns as verbs.
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Five new thrillers and mysteries for winter reading

Feb 22, 2020  | 
By Richard Lipez, Ian Rankin, Kathleen A. Kent, Charles Finch

Keene Sentinel — As the winter chill sets in, it’s a perfect time to cozy up with books that will give you a whole other kind of shiver. Here are five of the best new and upcoming thrillers and mysteries that deliver action, suspense and intrigue — all the way to that very last twist. “Westwind”By Ian Rankin(Little, Brown)This techno-action thriller with its ripped-from-today’s-headlines plot was actually first released in Britain back in 1990.
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The Tradition by Jericho Brown: 2019 Poetry finalist

Feb 22, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

bookcritics.org — Which tradition? Whose? Jericho Brown presses these questions continually in the slender, subtle, wry, and beautiful lyric poems of The Tradition – but almost never in ways a reader might anticipate. The book considers subjects like police violence against black men (“Bullet Points”), the clarifying anger of parenthood in a society of such basic structural injustice as America (“A Young Man”), and of love too (“Of My Fury”).
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Win A Copy Of The Book 'The Last Passenger: A Charles Lennox Mystery' By Charles Finch

Feb 19, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Red Carpet Crash — Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of The Book ‘The Last Passenger: A Charles Lennox Mystery’ By Charles Finch RedCarpetCrash February 19, 20202020-02-19T03:01:25-06:002020-02-19T07:40:21-06:00 From bestselling author Charles Finch comes the third and final in a prequel trilogy to his lauded Charles Lenox series. London, 1855: A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a first-class car at Paddington Station is the body...
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Book World: Five new thrillers and mysteries to help escape reality - or see it in another light

Feb 18, 2020  | 
By Kathleen A. Kent, Charles Finch

The Nation (Thailand) — Trouble Is What I Do Photo by: Mulholland — HANDOUT By Special To The Washington Post · Richard Lipez · ENTERTAINMENT, BOOKWORLD  Thriller roundup --- As the winter chill sets in, it's a perfect time to cozy up with books that will give you a whole other kind of shiver. Here are five of the best new and upcoming thrillers and mysteries that deliver action, suspense and intrigue - all the way to that very last twist.
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THE LAST PASSENGER

Feb 18, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Kirkus Reviews — FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast finds evil afoot in his latest action-filled adventure (Verses for the Dead, 2018, etc.). Imagine Florida beachcombers’ shock when they discover a shoe with a severed foot inside. Soon they see dozens more feet, all in identical shoes, bobbing toward the beach. Police and FBI ultimately count more than a hundred of them washing up on Sanibel and Captiva Islands' tranquil shores.
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Highway 59 Revisited

Jan 29, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Alta Online — Back in the days of the first Muslim ban—that catastrophe, a million catastrophes ago, at the onset of the current administration—people on social media started to post lists of the many remarkable things that immigrants (and Muslim immigrants specifically) have done in the United States, across every field. Lifesaving doctors, innovative leaders, great teachers. Steve Jobs, even. It was a bighearted impulse.
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The God Game by Danny Tobey: New Excerpt

Jan 15, 2020  | 
By Danny Tobey, Doreen Sheridan, Charles Finch

criminalelement.com — By Danny Tobey January 15, 2020 A technological thriller with an all-too-believable premise, following five teenagers obsessed with an online video game that connects them to their worst impulses and most dangerous desires... From award-winning author Danny Tobey—this is The God Game. 1 THE GAMEThe blue light of the computer screen was flickering on Charlie’s and Peter’s faces, making them look like astronauts lit by the cosmos. “Say something.”“No.”“Seriously.
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Win A Copy Of 'The Vanishing Man: A Charles Lenox Mystery' By Charles Finch

Jan 07, 2020  | 
By Charles Finch

Red Carpet Crash — Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of ‘The Vanishing Man: A Charles Lenox Mystery’ By Charles Finch RedCarpetCrash January 7, 20202020-01-07T02:52:49-06:002020-01-07T23:24:48-06:00 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...
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