![]() ![]() There are no fights, no gore, no sex, little bad language. Especially in our present moment, alas.Ĭharles Lenox is an exceptionally mild-mannered protagonist. Finally, I realized that people need that. I’ve struggled in my series with that lie-that Victorian England was a refuge. The long shadows on green lawns, the afternoon tea service, all of that, felt like a refuge when I was an angst-filled teenager. They were mainly writing about the gentry and there was a serenity to those worlds, even if the characters struggled. Wodehouse and then in the next few years Jane Austen, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope. I can only tell you my own experience, which is that at an early age-twelve, thirteen-I fell hard for P.G. Americans are entranced by shows such as “Downton Abbey” and “The Crown.” Why the fascination with aristocracy or a feudal order-especially in a republic? There seems to be quite an appetite for British mysteries, Victoriana and tales of toffs. He talked to Newcity about his internationally successful series. Finch, who was recently awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle, also reviews books for USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times. “The Woman in the Water,” the eleventh book in Charles Finch’s Agatha- and Nero-award-nominated Charles Lenox series, presents the beginning of Lenox’s career-an unlikely choice for a baronet’s son. A woman is found dead in a dripping wet naval trunk on an islet in the Thames River in Victorian London. ![]()
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