With all the humanity, glamor, and mystery that readers have come to
love, the next Charles Lenox Mystery, The Laws of Murder, is a shining
confirmation of the enduring popularity of Charles Finch's Victorian
series.
It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private
investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years,
primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and
three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind.
But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find
work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play the game as he
once did.
Then comes a chance to redeem himself, though at a terrible price: a
friend, a member of Scotland Yard, is shot near Regent's Park. As Lenox
begins to parse the peculiar details of the death - an unlaced boot, a
days-old wound, an untraceable luggage ticket - he realizes that the
incident may lead him into grave personal danger, beyond which lies a
terrible truth.