Author: Charles Finch
Published: February 16th 2021 by Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Genre: Historical Mystery
Series: Charles Lenox #11
First Sentence: It was a sunny, icy late morning in February of 1878, and a solitary figure, lost in thought, strode along one of the pale paths winding through St. James’s Park in London.
Blurb: London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case.
But when a letter arrives with an unexpected invitation, he's unable to resist the call of an old, unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, he begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its new robber baron splendor. Then, a shock: the suicide of the season's most beautiful debutante, who has thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a suicide? Her closest friend doesn't think so, and Lenox, sacrificing his plans, travels to the family's magnificent Newport mansion in the guise of an idle English gentleman. What ensues is a fiendsh game of cat and mouse.
Witty, complex, and tender, An Extravagant Death is Charles Finch's triumphant return to the main storyline of his beloved Charles Lenox series--a devilish mystery, a social drama, and an unforgettable first trip for an Englishman coming to America. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: Never thought it would happen, but I am finally caught up with the Charles Lenox series. This has been a long time coming since I put Finch books down for months at a time before I have the patience to pick them back up again. His books can be entertaining, informative, and horribly over descriptive at the same time, to the point where I don’t care about the room decor or social custom nuances and want to get back to the murder investigation.
The who-done-it part of the book surprised me. I’m not sure if it had to do with my distraction with the book centered in America instead of England or the usual cast of characters being few and far between, but this book felt different.
I can’t believe I am saying this, but I am looking forward to seeing where Charles Lenox will go next.
Blurb: London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case.
But when a letter arrives with an unexpected invitation, he's unable to resist the call of an old, unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, he begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its new robber baron splendor. Then, a shock: the suicide of the season's most beautiful debutante, who has thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a suicide? Her closest friend doesn't think so, and Lenox, sacrificing his plans, travels to the family's magnificent Newport mansion in the guise of an idle English gentleman. What ensues is a fiendsh game of cat and mouse.
Witty, complex, and tender, An Extravagant Death is Charles Finch's triumphant return to the main storyline of his beloved Charles Lenox series--a devilish mystery, a social drama, and an unforgettable first trip for an Englishman coming to America. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: Never thought it would happen, but I am finally caught up with the Charles Lenox series. This has been a long time coming since I put Finch books down for months at a time before I have the patience to pick them back up again. His books can be entertaining, informative, and horribly over descriptive at the same time, to the point where I don’t care about the room decor or social custom nuances and want to get back to the murder investigation.
The who-done-it part of the book surprised me. I’m not sure if it had to do with my distraction with the book centered in America instead of England or the usual cast of characters being few and far between, but this book felt different.
I can’t believe I am saying this, but I am looking forward to seeing where Charles Lenox will go next.
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