The title character, reluctant detective John Finch, is tasked with investigating a double-murder, one victim a human and the second a gray cap.Įric Brown reviewed the book for The Guardian and says that " Finch plays with the conventions of the noir thriller, espionage and fantasy genres, mixing all three to produce something unique and unsettling." He does suggest that the "fractured, fragmented prose style. Their "Rising" followed a destructive civil war between rival human factions. Written in the noir style of detective novels, it stands alone, while referencing characters and events from the earlier City of Saints and Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword.Īt the time of Finch, Ambergris is ruled by the gray caps, a non-human, "spore-based" species. Finch is a fantasy novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer, his third set in the Ambergris universe.
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