One was in an impeccable gray suit, the other in a ratty brown smoking jacket. There were two men at the highly polished breakfast table by the window, three stories above street level. James’s Square was the rustling of newspapers, punctuated occasionally by the crisp shear of a pair of sharpened scissors through newsprint. When the killer’s sights are turned toward those whom Lenox holds most dear, the stakes are raised and Lenox is trapped in a desperate game of cat and mouse.įor a little more than an hour on that May morning in 1850, the only sound in the flat in St. With few clues to go on, Lenox endeavors to solve the crime before another innocent life is lost. The writer’s first victim is a young woman whose body is found in a naval trunk, caught up in the rushes of a small islet in the middle of the Thames. 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. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective…without a single case. He lives in Chicago.The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch is a prequel to the Charles Lenox series, which takes readers back to Lenox's very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London’s most brilliant detectives (available February 20, 2018).

His first contemporary novel, The Last Enchantments, was published in 2015. His first novel, A Beautiful Blue Death, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2007, one of only five mystery novels on the list. He is the author of the Charles Lenox mysteries. Charles Finch is a graduate of Yale and Oxford.

The woman in the water by charles finch