Penny Green Books in Order

Victorian reporter Penny Green investigates the murder of an actress believed to have drowned years earlier. Her connection to the victim and collaboration with Inspector James Blakely draw her into dangerous questions about a staged death and hidden motives.

Working undercover as a maid in an industrialist's London home, reporter Penny Green witnesses a birthday celebration turn fatal. Cyanide in a young woman's champagne leads her and Inspector Blakely through family secrets while she risks exposing her disguise.

When her father's expedition diaries are stolen, Penny Green pursues the thief into the St Giles slum and becomes implicated in a murder. Inspector Blakely helps her investigate neglected crimes while she searches for the missing papers and answers.

Penny Green suspects a connection between a fatal Fitzrovia burglary and a murder in a Limehouse opium den. Her investigation reaches Britain's lucrative opium trade, but Inspector Blakely's disappearance makes uncovering official secrets an increasingly urgent personal mission.

Three arsenic deaths in Bermondsey seem solved when a poisoner confesses, but further victims challenge that conclusion. Penny Green and Inspector Blakely follow missing suspects and false identities across London, facing a killer whose cunning threatens investigators as well.

Electricity pioneer Simon Borthwick dies by apparent suicide after a Crystal Palace display, leaving a letter that troubles Penny Green. A connection to a curator's murder leads her and Inspector Blakely toward powerful interests threatened by his inventions.

Penny Green attends the reopening of a grand London hotel, only to become one of ten suspects when its owner is murdered. Working with Inspector Blakely, she investigates stolen art, secret codes, and a past marked by deadly fires.

Reporting undercover at Shoreditch Workhouse, Penny Green questions the explanation given for two inmates' deaths during a fight. Her investigation with Inspector Blakely exposes neglect and troubling secrets, provoking resistance from people unwilling to examine how the poor are treated.

With her wedding approaching, Penny Green investigates a gang of women robbing London's wealthy shoppers and a body recovered from the Thames. A stranger's riddle leads toward the Twelve Brides, a secret group connected to powerful members of society.

A fire in Penny Green's neighborhood reveals a connection to a woman's unsolved murder in Ratcliffe. Investigating the victim's decline from a comfortable family home leads Penny toward aristocratic and political secrets, despite her new husband's reservations about helping.

An Egyptologist appears to die in a London hotel, but his corpse vanishes and his wife cannot be found. Penny Green investigates deceptive identities and conflicting evidence, risking dangerous encounters to establish what happened and whether the death was genuine.

Penny Green doubts a medium's claims at a London theater, then befriends a protester who soon turns up murdered. Investigating the killing leads her into family secrets, illicit relationships, and suspected fraud while straining relations with her inspector husband.