Series
Series about Restoration London (3 series)
Thomas Chaloner in Order
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…
1. A Conspiracy of Violence
2. Blood on the Strand
3. The Butcher of Smithfield
4. The Westminster Poisoner
5. A Murder on London Bridge
6. The Body in the Thames
7. The Piccadilly Plot
8. Death in St James’s Park
9. Murder on High Holborn
10. The Cheapside Corpse
11. The Chelsea Strangler
12. The Executioner of St Paul’s
13. Intrigue in Covent Garden
14. The Clerkenwell Affair
15. The Pudding Lane Plot
Women of Pepys’ Diary in Order
The Women of Pepys’ Diary series retells Restoration London through women who appear in Samuel Pepys’s diary but are usually seen only through his perspective. Pleasing Mr Pepys places Deb Willet and Elisabeth Pepys at the centre; A Plague on Mr Pepys follows Elizabeth Bagwell during the Great…
Betsy Brand Mystery in Order
The Betsy Brand mysteries follow a professional actress in Restoration London as the skills of the stage draw her into investigation and espionage. In After the Fire, a murder at Dorset Gardens Theatre leads Betsy back to secrets born in the Great Fire; The Judas Blade sends her…
