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Charles Finch Books in Order

Charles Finch has written 20 books, published between 2007 and 2026. The first book is A Beautiful Blue Death (2007) and the newest is Midnight in the House of Commons (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
2007–2026
Confirmed
20 of 20 titles
Pages on record
4,967 in 16 of 20 books
Reading time
83–124 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,967 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Historical detection in London is Charles Finch's main line of work. The Charles Lenox Mysteries put a private investigator of that name onto murder cases, opening with A Beautiful Blue Death (2007) and continuing to Midnight in the House of Commons. Finch's catalogue holds 20 books, with standalone novels and non-fiction beside the Lenox series, and publication runs into 2026.

How many Charles Finch books are there?

Charles Finch has 20 books, released between 2007 and 2026. 18 of them belong to the Charles Lenox Mysteries series.

Charles Finch Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Charles Finch books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch, book 1 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2007)
  2. Cover of The September Society by Charles Finch, book 2 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2008)
  3. Cover of The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch, book 3 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2009)
  4. Cover of A Stranger in Mayfair by Charles Finch, book 4 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2010)
  5. Cover of A Burial at Sea by Charles Finch, book 5 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2011)
  6. Cover of A Death in the Small Hours by Charles Finch, book 7 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2012)
  7. Cover of An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch, book 8 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2013)
  8. Cover of The Last Enchantments by Charles Finch, book 1 of the Charles Finch Standalone Novels series (2014)
  9. Cover of The Laws of Murder by Charles Finch, book 9 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2014)
  10. Cover of Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch, book 10 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2015)
  11. Cover of The Inheritance by Charles Finch, book 11 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2016)
  12. Cover of The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch, book 14 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2019)
  13. Cover of The Last Passenger by Charles Finch, book 15 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2020)
  14. Cover of What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year by Charles Finch, book 1 of the Charles Finch Non-Fiction series (2021)
  15. Cover of The Hidden City by Charles Finch, book 17 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series (2025)
  1. 1
    A Beautiful Blue DeathCharles Lenox Mysteries #12007 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007336
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  2. 2
    The September SocietyCharles Lenox Mysteries #22008 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008320
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  3. 3
    The Fleet Street MurdersCharles Lenox Mysteries #32009 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009320
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  4. 4
    A Stranger in MayfairCharles Lenox Mysteries #42010 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010336
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  5. 5
    A Burial at SeaCharles Lenox Mysteries #52011 · 318 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011318
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  6. 6
    An East End MurderCharles Lenox Mysteries #62011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  7. 7
    A Death in the Small HoursCharles Lenox Mysteries #72012 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012336
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  8. 8
    An Old BetrayalCharles Lenox Mysteries #82013 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013294
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  9. 9
    The Last EnchantmentsCharles Finch Standalone Novels #12014 · 323 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014323
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  10. 10
    The Laws of MurderCharles Lenox Mysteries #92014 · 290 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014290
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  11. 11
    Home by NightfallCharles Lenox Mysteries #102015 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015294
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  12. 12
    The InheritanceCharles Lenox Mysteries #112016 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016320
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  13. 13
    Gone Before ChristmasCharles Lenox Mysteries #122017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
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  14. 14
    The Woman in the WaterCharles Lenox Mysteries #132018 · 292 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018292
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  15. 15
    The Vanishing ManCharles Lenox Mysteries #142019 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019304
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  16. 16
    The Last PassengerCharles Lenox Mysteries #152020 · 292 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020292
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  17. 17
    What Just Happened: Notes on a Long YearCharles Finch Non-Fiction #12021 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021288
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  18. 18
    An Extravagant DeathCharles Lenox Mysteries #162021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  19. 19
    The Hidden CityCharles Lenox Mysteries #172025 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2025304
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  20. 20
    Midnight in the House of CommonsCharles Lenox Mysteries #182026 · confirmed 3/4
    2026–
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Charles Finch characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Charles Finch books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Charles Lenox Mysteries in order

18 books
  1. 1. A Beautiful Blue Death
  2. 2. The September Society
  3. 3. The Fleet Street Murders
  4. 4. A Stranger in Mayfair
  5. 5. A Burial at Sea
  6. 6. An East End Murder
  7. 7. A Death in the Small Hours
  8. 8. An Old Betrayal
  9. 9. The Laws of Murder
  10. 10. Home by Nightfall
  11. 11. The Inheritance
  12. 12. Gone Before Christmas
  13. and 6 more in the table above

Charles Finch Standalone Novels

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Charles Finch Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Charles Finch Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Charles Finch books run from A Beautiful Blue Death (2007) to Midnight in the House of Commons (2026), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Charles Finch in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Charles Finch books in order?

You only need to read Charles Finch books in order within the Charles Lenox Mysteries series, which holds 18 of the 20 Charles Finch books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Charles Finch

Start with A Beautiful Blue Death (2007), the first Charles Lenox book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Charles Finch book?

Midnight in the House of Commons (2026) is the newest Charles Finch book released so far.

Is there a new Charles Finch book coming?

No next Charles Finch book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Charles Finch at a glance

Still publishing
Charles Finch published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Charles Finch books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,967 pages across the 16 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 311 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Charles Finch books, 12 of 20, were published in the 2010s.

What the Charles Finch books are about

15 of the 20 Charles Finch books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 11 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.