Ashley Gardner Books in Order

Back from the Napoleonic Wars, Gabriel Lacey returns to London exhausted and adrift. A missing girl pulls him into Mayfair corruption, murder, and the city's underworld, giving the former cavalry captain a dangerous new purpose.

When Gabriel Lacey rescues a mysterious woman on a London bridge, he is drawn into the suspicious death of her colonel husband. The case reaches back to the Peninsular War and puts both Lydia Westin and Lacey in danger.

Asked to identify a murdered young woman, Lacey vows to find her killer. His search leads from the Thames to a notorious gaming hell, where buried secrets and James Denis's schemes make the case far deadlier than it first appears.

A dandy is stabbed at a grand Berkeley Square ball, and Lacey's former commander becomes the prime suspect. To clear the stubborn colonel, Lacey must untangle lies that stretch back to the Peninsular War.

Lacey takes a quiet post at a Berkshire boys' school and quickly learns he was hired for more than clerical work. Pranks turn deadly, a Romany man is blamed, and the truth lies buried in secrets the school would rather keep.

While helping investigate missing girls in Covent Garden, Lacey makes a shocking discovery, his long-lost daughter is in London. The case turns fiercely personal when the dangers closing in on the district threaten Gabriella as well.

A trip to Lacey's boyhood home in Norfolk becomes anything but restful. A missing young woman, eerie happenings at the family estate, and a message for James Denis pull him into theft, murder, and old wounds.

This short story collection gives Lacey two brisk Regency cases, a mystery tied to a missing walking stick and another involving a vanished young woman. Small clues lead to family secrets and quiet deception.

A society matron wants her missing necklace found and her maid cleared of theft. Lacey, Lady Breckenridge, and Grenville uncover scandal, old grudges, and a race with James Denis before an innocent woman pays the price.

On the eve of major changes in his personal life, Lacey agrees to search for a missing actress. The trail runs through Drury Lane, blackmail, and dangerous men, while Bow Street presses him to turn on James Denis.

As Lacey prepares for a duel, tragedy strikes people close to him. His investigation carries him from Grosvenor Square to Seven Dials and into an illegal trade that could ruin everyone tangled in it.

This anthology gathers three historical mysteries set in seventeenth-century France, Regency London, and Victorian London. It's a good sampler of Gardner's range, from court intrigue to kitchens to the supernatural edges of the Regency.

Peter Thompson asks Lacey to reopen the murder of a woman found near the docks, a case no one else believes can be solved. At the same time, family pressures and a blackmailer make his home life newly precarious.

Lacey finally travels to Egypt with Grenville, but James Denis has sent him after a mysterious object in Alexandria. Tombs, antiquities dealers, and ruthless fortune hunters turn the journey into a deadly hunt.

Odd thefts and strange disturbances at Carlton House pull Lacey into the Prince Regent's circle. With Bow Street and James Denis backing different suspects, he must find the truth before politics and crime collide.

Freedom has not made life easy for Leonidas. When a man who owed him money is murdered, the former gladiator becomes the leading suspect, and only sharp-eyed Cassia can help him fight his way back to the truth.

This anthology pairs three mysteries from different corners of Gardner's historical worlds, Victorian London, Imperial Rome, and Regency England. It is an easy way to sample Kat Holloway, Leonidas, and Captain Lacey in one volume.

When Brewster becomes entangled in a murder in St. Giles, Lacey rushes to clear him. At the same time, a grasping cousin threatens Lady Breckenridge's young son, forcing Lacey to protect family and friend at once.

Lacey wakes in Brighton standing over a corpse with a bloody sword and no memory of the night. To save himself, he must piece together the truth and face painful scandals from his own past.

Freed from the arena, Leonidas takes bodyguard work to support himself and the clever scribe Cassia. A simple escort job to Ostia turns into a dangerous conspiracy that reaches all the way to Nero.

A strange errand for James Denis begins with a box holding only a white queen chess piece. Soon Lacey is helping an old army friend accused of smuggling and murder, while Denis's underworld war threatens Lacey's family.

Leonidas and Cassia investigate gladiators vanishing from a Rome training school. Their search uncovers brutal murders, wealthy patrons, and an unseen killer who could make Leonidas answer for the chaos.

In Rome, Lacey is drawn into a knot of murder, kidnapping, and rare art. As James Denis demands answers, the case forces him through the city's dangerous corners and into another battle over power and possession.

Robert Archer has already shamed his family by losing a powerful artifact when he is attacked in London's dark streets. Rescued by a dangerous night-slayer, he stumbles into an alternate Regency world of hidden debts and supernatural peril.

Leonidas is ready to leave his gladiator life behind when he finds a priceless ring buried at a building site. Nero orders him and Cassia to trace its owner, and the search opens a dangerous path through Rome.

James Denis is arrested for murder, and Lacey is the one man who might prove him innocent. The search leads through Seven Dials, old enemies, secret societies, and a message from a woman Lacey thought long gone.

Heading home after a New Year's gathering, Robert Archer encounters fashionable were-beasts and a night-slayer. When a murdered man is found nearby, the supposed monsters ask Archer to help prove they are innocent.

Nearly a year after winning freedom, Leonidas is asked to open the Saturnalian games. Before he can face the arena again, Nero orders him and Cassia to solve a senator's robbery on Rome's chaotic winter streets.

Émilie d'Armand, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of France, visits a friend in Paris and finds a household poisoned by secrecy. An old unsolved murder draws her into danger as she tries to uncover the truth.

During the festival of Lemuria, Leonidas thinks he sees his dead friend Xerxes alive in Rome. Chasing that impossible sight forces him and Cassia into buried secrets that threaten them both.

In Lyon for a family wedding, Lacey finds a man from his past looming over a fresh corpse. Suspicion falls on his future in-laws, and the investigation exposes dark secrets they would rather keep buried.