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Susanna Gregory

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Susanna Gregory is a British author best known for historical crime fiction set in medieval Cambridge and Restoration London. Before becoming a novelist, she worked as a police officer and pursued an academic career that included teaching comparative anatomy and biological anthropology. Her scientific background contributes to the medical detail and investigative methods found throughout her mysteries.

Her long-running Matthew Bartholomew series begins with A Plague on Both Your Houses and follows a fourteenth-century physician investigating murders amid university rivalries, religious disputes and the aftermath of the Black Death. Gregory also created the Thomas Chaloner series, centred on a former spy working in the dangerous political world of Restoration London. Her novels combine intricate mysteries with detailed portrayals of medicine, crime, social unrest and everyday historical life.

Periods and events

Anglo-Saxon Englandc. 476–1066 CE Arthurian BritainLegendary setting, conventionally c. 5th–6th centuries CE Black Death1347–1351 CE Early Medievalc. 476–1000 CE First Crusade1095–1099 CE Great Fire of London1666 CE Great Plague of London1665–1666 CE Hundred Years’ War1337–1453 CE Late Medievalc. 1300–1500 CE Medieval England after the Norman Conquest1071–1300 CE Norse Exploration of the North Atlanticc. 870–1100 CE Post-Roman Britainc. 410–600 CE Restoration London1660–1685 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Susanna Gregory (3 series)

Matthew Bartholomew in Order

by Susanna Gregory 25 books 4.4(24,025)

The Matthew Bartholomew chronicles follow a physician and teacher at Michaelhouse in fourteenth-century Cambridge. Beginning with the arrival of the Black Death in 1348, the series places Bartholomew and his formidable friend Brother Michael inside a university community divided by college rivalries, religious disputes, fragile civic authority and…

Thomas Chaloner in Order

by Susanna Gregory 15 books 4.3(11,693)

The Thomas Chaloner mysteries follow a former Commonwealth intelligencer attempting to survive after the restoration of Charles II. Employed by the Earl of Clarendon, Chaloner works inside a court that distrusts his Parliamentarian past, investigating murder, corruption and political conspiracy in London during the first turbulent years of…

Medieval Murderers in Order

by various authors 10 books 3.9(3,850)

The Medieval Murderers books are collaborative historical-mystery anthologies in which a shared relic, manuscript, legend, place or moral theme links separate crimes across centuries. Each contributor writes an episode using characters from an established series or a new historical setting, so the central object accumulates competing meanings as…

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