Gilded Age Mystery Books in Order

During the Great Blizzard of 1888, Prudence MacKenzie's fiancé is found dead with an ace of spades in his hand. Convinced it was murder, she joins his friend, ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter, to uncover a threat to her inheritance and survival.

Opera singer Claire Buchanan believes her twin sister and newborn niece were murdered, not lost in childbirth. To expose Catherine's controlling widower, Prudence risks becoming his next target while Geoffrey investigates the secrets he has kept hidden.

After Prudence's childhood friend Nora Kenny is murdered, Prudence and Geoffrey hunt a killer targeting poor young women in Gilded Age New York. As fear of a new Ripper spreads, they must find the link between the victims before more women die.

Prudence travels with Geoffrey to a Georgia Sea Island for her friend's wedding, only for the bride to be found drowned in a swamp. Signs of murder pull them into the region's buried violence, racial tensions, and dangerous family secrets.

When fake diamonds appear at a Delmonico's ball, Prudence and Geoffrey are hired to recover gems once owned by Marie Antoinette. A murdered jeweler turns a discreet assignment into a deadly search through society mansions, criminal streets, and a secretive banking family.

With Geoffrey recovering from a shooting and NYU opening law classes to women, Prudence tries to help two endangered children. Their disappearance sends the investigators through Five Points, aided by Nellie Bly and Jacob Riis, toward a predator known as Il diavolo.

In 1890, newly admitted lawyer Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter head to Niagara Falls to protect an heiress's claim. A body recovered from a daredevil's barrel points them toward land fraud, bribery, and a killer willing to strike again.

At a Metropolitan Museum exhibition, a Chinese cultural attaché is murdered before Prudence and Geoffrey's eyes. Their investigation carries them into Chinatown, where the victim's vulnerable family faces deportation, criminal pressure, and a killer seeking old revenge.

Prudence and Geoffrey investigate mysterious deaths surrounding Waif of the Highlands, a new Scottish play at a Broadway theater. After an actor clashes with its celebrated playwright-director, backstage rivalries and theatrical ambition turn deadly.

Just before Prudence and Geoffrey's wedding, the seamstress making Prudence's gown is murdered and the dress is destroyed. As sabotage spreads through the wedding plans, the pair must protect a young designer and discover who is targeting their future.