See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Charles Finch
The Laws of Murder
Book #8 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series
See the list of Charles Lenox Mysteries books in order

The Laws of Murder

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.

Author: Charles Finch
Published: 2014
Page Count: 320

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For The Laws of Murder

The Laws of Murder
Discuss The Laws of Murder With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoThe Laws of Murder? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest The Laws of Murder

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Charles Finch Book Club Friends

U is for Undertow
The Distant Hours
Love You to Death
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor
The Wire in the Blood
A Thief of Time
Diamond and the Eye
Electra
The Scam
A Grave in the Woods
Explosive Eighteen
Last Breath
Exit Music
When Will There Be Good News
Harvest
An East End Murder: A Charles Lennox Short Story
Depraved Heart
Death in the Vines
True Blue
The Lion and the Rose
A Trick of the Light
Dead Water
The Lost Bird
Farriers' Lane
Private Eyes
The Clairvoyant Countess
Force of Nature
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
In Plain Sight: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Piranha to Scurfy
The Bride's Kimono
The Turn of the Key
Not Dark Yet
Killing with Confetti
Blood Money
A Better Man
No Time Left
Land of the Living
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Silent Prey
Blockade Billy
The Lantern's Dance
Night Gate
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Creole Belle
Shoulder the Sky: A Novel
Death of a Gentle Lady
The Face in the Mirror
Gone Before Christmas: A Charles Lenox Mystery
Sunburn
Wild Crimes
Search the Shadows
Her Last Breath
A Song for the Dark Times
The Lost Art of Gratitude
Faith
Death of a Liar
The Murders of Richard III
Grave of the Lawgiver
Total Control
The Sound of Broken Glass
Sea Fever
City of the Dead
Tooth and Nail
A Highland Christmas: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
A Christmas Vanishing: A Novel
The Stargazey
Falling in Love
A New York Christmas: A Novel
The Last Precinct
Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Clawback
Seven Dials
Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery
Lady of the Eternal City
The Rise: A Short Story
The Patriarch
Stone Cold
The Language of Bees
Burial of Ghosts
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding
O Jerusalem
The Girls in the Garden
Precious and Grace
Naughty In Nice
Baltimore Blues
The Ex
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
To Love and Be Wise
Something Borrowed
Failure to Appear
Bad Little Falls
Head Wounds
Beautiful Ugly
Stop Them Dead
Judgment Call
Win
I'm Not Done with You Yet
The Story Teller
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Brimstone
The Blessing Way
The Geometry of Holding Hands
The Spook Who Spoke Again
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
The One Thing More
The Devil's Cave
Two Graves
Roxanne: A Kings Lake Investigation
The Old Success: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Fly on the Wall
Luck and Judgement: A DC Smith Investigation
A Pale Horse
Witch
The Winds of Change
A Christmas Legacy: A Novel
Inherit the Dead
The Mary Russell Companion
The Last Word
Belgrave Square
The Dancing Floor
Cold Betrayal
A Matter of Justice
A Taint in the Blood
Purple Cane Road
The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
The Messenger
The Gate Keeper
The Purity of Vengeance
The Long Call
House of Correction
Crusader's Cross
Murder on the Short List
Killing Orders: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Killjoy
Body Work: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
The Lost Get Back Boogie
Racing the Devil
Suicide Run
Bonfire Night
A Breach of Security
Report for Murder
The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Nesting Dolls
A Stranger in Mayfair
Cold Earth
Death in Blue Folders
Careless Love
The Dream Stalker
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
The Black Ice
I Will Find You
Dead Man's Footsteps
Eleven on Top
The Distant Echo
Bitterroot
God Rest Ye
The Truth
The Impossible Dead
Journey to Munich
Rage: An Alex Delaware Novel
A Royal Pain
The Skeleton Road
The Quiche of Death
Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
At Some Disputed Barricade
A Letter of Mary
Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery
The Shadows We Hide
Heirs and Graces
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Templars' Last Secret
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
The Scottish Prisoner
Predator
The Old Contemptibles
Lord John and the Hellfire Club
The Silver Pigs
The False Inspector Dew
Cover Her Face
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service
The Housemaid's Secret
Revenge of the Stormbringer
The Big Gamble
The Cuckoo's Calling
Big Driver
The Iron Hand of Mars
The English Assassin
An Impartial Witness
Six Years
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Victim 2117
The Double Comfort Safari Club
Zero Days
Stranded
Apostle's Cove
Set in Darkness
Devil Bones
House Of Stairs
The Torment of Others
The Charming Quirks of Others
The Good Daughter: A Novel
Blood and Circuses
Friends in High Places
Mindgame
Never Saw it Coming
The Collected Short Stories and Essays
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Want You Dead
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel
Vicious Circle
Brat Farrar
Paper Money
To the Power of Three
The Crocodile Bird
Twisted Prey
The Twenty-Three
The Son: A Novel
Silence in Hanover Close
Gathering Prey
The Woods
Street of the Five Moons: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Web of Evil
Live Flesh
Grave Secrets
The Birthday Present
Mind Prey
Watching You
Slough House
Cleaning the Gold: A Jack Reacher and Will Trent Short Story
An Unexpected Peril
The Face Of Trespass
A Christmas Gathering
The Next Accident
The Last Camel Died at Noon
Kick Back
Restless in the Grave
Night over Water
Wednesday's Child: An Inspector Banks Novel
Night in the City
A Christmas Escape: A Novel
The Housemaid Is Watching
Femme Fatale
Dancing with Demons
The Benefit of Hindsight
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
A Christmas Secret: A Novel
Man Found Dead in Park
The Black Ascot
Hidden Depths
Eyes of Prey
Christmas in Absaroka County: Walt Longmire Christmas Stories
Pit Stop: Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber
Sharp Force
Isle of Dogs
Zero Day
The Shadow Killer
Why We Die
The Vows of Silence
The Guilty
The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories
Dead at First Sight
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Witch Hunt
Battle Mountain
Through the Window
The Last Widow: A Will Trent Thriller
Bloodhounds
The Woman in Cabin 10
Motor Mouth
Shots Fired
The Truth: A DC Smith Investigation
How to Solve Your Own Murder
A Private Cathedral
Code to Zero
Blue on Black
Tricky Twenty-Two
I Will Ruin You
The Luckiest Woman Ever
Death of a Greedy Woman
A Treacherous Curse
The Gifted
Some Lie and Some Die
Hunting Shadows
The Red Door
The Beautiful Mystery
After That Night: A Will Trent Thriller
The Investigator
Blood on the Water: A William Monk Novel
The Sentence is Death
No Man's Nightingale
The Fallen
Promise Me
Left for Dead
Bones: An Alex Delaware Novel