Susanna Gregory Books in Order

In 1348, as plague heads for Cambridge, physician Matthew Bartholomew suspects the Master of Michaelhouse was murdered. Solving the crime means navigating fear, superstition, and a university already starting to come apart.

The plague has passed, but Cambridge is still broken. When a corpse is found in the chest that holds the university's most precious documents, Matthew must leave his teaching and hunt a killer before panic returns.

As rumors of plague's return send Cambridge searching for holy protection, the sudden discovery of a local martyr's bones looks almost too convenient. Matthew suspects fraud, and then the deaths begin.

Three university men die after drinking poisoned wine, drawing Matthew and Brother Michael into a conspiracy driven by greed, family ties, and academic resentment. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous Cambridge becomes.

Jerusalem is newly conquered and already tearing itself apart when a quiet knight is murdered. Sir Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered to investigate, and soon finds that the struggle for power may kill him too.

After two decades away, Geoffrey returns to Goodrich hoping for rest and finds fresh turmoil instead. His father believes he is being poisoned, and home proves every bit as treacherous as the Holy Land.

A trip to rural Suffolk should have been routine business for Michaelhouse. Instead, Matthew and Michael find a village thick with superstition, old grudges, and murder.

When the Master of Michaelhouse is found murdered on the banks of the Cam, Matthew and Michael are forced into a dangerous investigation at the heart of their own college. Everyone around them has a motive.

Cambridge is split by a bitter theological dispute when a young friar is stabbed. Matthew and Michael must stop the quarrel turning even deadlier before the university tears itself apart.

The Bishop of Ely stands accused of murdering the steward of his fierce rival Blanche de Wake. Matthew and Michael head into the eerie Fens, where politics, suspicion, and murder are hard to untangle.

Matthew's past catches up with him when his former fiancée arrives in Cambridge with her new husband. Personal embarrassment turns to murder when a servant is killed and old feelings cloud the case.

When the Bishop of Durham escapes the Tower, Geoffrey and his friend Roger are drawn into a hunt with national consequences. Murder and family loyalty collide as England's fragile stability starts to wobble.

Trouble at the royal mints sends Geoffrey to Bristol and Bath on the king's orders. What starts as a financial dispute quickly turns into a deadly investigation.

Two pardoned killers return to Cambridge eager for revenge, while a violent dispute between rival mills threatens the town. Matthew and Michael face a case where grudges can spill blood at any moment.

The killing of a hated baron's illegitimate son pulls Geoffrey and Roger into a dangerous web of intrigue. To solve it, they must move carefully among men who treat treachery as ordinary business.

After a savage riot in Oxford, refugee scholars flee to Cambridge, only for one of them to be murdered. Matthew and Michael must solve the crime before both universities pay the price.

A fragment of the True Cross, supposedly stained with the blood of Christ, carries a deadly curse. This collaborative novel traces the relic's bloody path from Jerusalem in 1100 through centuries of English history, as different sleuths encounter the cursed object and the violence that follows it.

With Cromwell dead and the Commonwealth collapsing, former spy Thomas Chaloner needs work and protection. Clarendon's offer looks timely, until a search for buried gold uncovers murder and darker secrets.

A Saxon sword forged before the Norman Conquest brings betrayal and death to all who wield it. From the battlefields of the 14th century to political scandals in Venice, this collection of linked mysteries follows the cursed blade's journey through the hands of knights, rebels, and murderers.

A winter journey to Lincoln pulls Matthew and Michael into a string of brutal murders and a city steeped in corruption. Under the cathedral's shadow, nearly everyone has something to hide.

A wealthy merchant is brutally killed after dining with powerful men, and Chaloner is sent to investigate. The trail leads toward White Hall, the king's circle, and enemies who would rather kill again than talk.

Bermondsey Priory is cursed after a young chaplain is punished for sins of the flesh in 1114. Over the next five centuries, the priory becomes a backdrop for murder, ghosts, and political intrigue, as recorded in this series of interlinked tales by the Medieval Murderers group.

London's rival newsmen are at war, with handwritten newsletters battling official newsbooks for influence. When their feud turns lethal, Chaloner uncovers a plot built on lies, power, and public opinion.

Ten years after the Black Death, Cambridge is terrorized by a hooded figure known as the Sorcerer. When rumor starts pointing at Matthew himself, he must clear his name while hunting a killer.

A mysterious book of prophecies written by a 6th-century Irish monk is said to predict everything from the Black Death to the Gunpowder Plot. As the manuscript passes through history, it leaves a trail of madness and death for anyone who tries to decipher its secrets.

Rent increases push Cambridge toward open conflict between town and gown just as a mysterious healer arrives. When a body is found, Matthew begins to wonder whether the newcomer's cures conceal something far darker.

The death of notorious iconoclast Dick Culmer points Chaloner toward a band of Puritan plotters. If he cannot move faster than they do, their rebellion will end in spectacular violence.

Michaelhouse is already short of money when its chalices are stolen, its Master attacked, and its treasurer accused of theft. Matthew must defend his colleagues while a deadly misuse of stolen medicines raises the stakes.

Geoffrey inherits Goodrich Castle after his last surviving brother is found dead, but the prize brings danger with it. Rival claimants, murder, and an unwanted marriage loom over his new life.

In 1191, monks at Glastonbury Abbey claim to have found the bones of King Arthur. But are they real, or a political fabrication? This linked narrative follows the secret of the bones through the ages, as guardians protect them from those who would use the legend for power.

A murdered Treasury official looks like a simple office crime to everyone but Chaloner. His search for the real killer drags him into a filthy world of profit, corruption, and men who protect both.

A wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse, and the college risks being blamed. Matthew and Brother Michael need answers fast before suspicion hardens into scandal.

Shipwrecked near Hastings on his way back to the Holy Land, Geoffrey stumbles into a rebellion against Henry I. To survive, he must stop a pretender before the kingdom is torn open.

Peace talks with Dutch delegates are thrown into crisis when one of them is murdered in London. Chaloner must solve the crime before hardliners on both sides turn it into war.

A meteorite falls in Greenland and is fashioned into a stone with reputed healing powers. But greed and violence follow the artifact as it travels to medieval Exeter and beyond, bringing misfortune rather than miracles to those who possess it.

Sent into Wales with royal letters, Geoffrey begins to suspect his mission is not as harmless as it looks. When one companion is murdered, every sealed message becomes a possible motive.

Solsbury Hill has been a place of death and ritual since ancient times. This collection follows the hill's dark history through the ages, from pagan sacrifices to medieval crimes, as the spirits of the past continue to haunt the living.

Matthew and Michael travel to York to claim a church left to Michaelhouse, only to find rival claimants and fresh murder waiting for them. The legal dispute quickly turns into a deadly one.

A donated house for Cambridge's new library should be a triumph, but it sparks anger across the university. Then four bodies are discovered in the garden, and scholarship gives way to violence.

A play depicting the biblical first murder of Abel by Cain carries a dark legacy. As the script surfaces in different eras—from a medieval mystery play to a Restoration drama—life begins to imitate art, and murder follows the actors who perform it.

Fresh from an assignment in Tangier, Chaloner reaches London just in time to witness a murder. His inquiries lead through stolen corpses, official killings, and a plot to frame the queen for treason.

A gunpowder blast outside the General Letter Office and a strange bird poisoning in St James's Park seem unrelated at first. Chaloner soon learns both cases point to the same dangerous conspiracy.

An ancient statue of the Virgin Mary, carved from pagan stone, exercises a strange and malevolent power. The Medieval Murderers trace the icon's journey across centuries, where religious devotion twists into obsession, heresy, and bloodshed.

When the unpopular Abbot of Peterborough vanishes, Brother Michael is sent to investigate and Matthew goes with him. Monastic rivalries, town bitterness, and a murder at a shrine make the abbey a dangerous place.

Years after an unexpected reunion with an old school friend, Helen's life is unraveling around a death she cannot forget. Past choices and present lies close in until hiding the truth becomes its own trap.

A ceremonial procession for a new college turns grim when Brother Michael's abrasive Junior Proctor is murdered. More deaths follow, exposing fault lines between the university, the town, and a powerful guild.

A dead courtier at Temperance's club draws Chaloner into the orbit of the Fifth Monarchists. The case widens into a threat that could shake the monarchy itself.

A tale of pride and punishment woven through history. From a boastful Norman lord to a 14th-century priory, the authors explore how the deadliest sin leads to downfall and death, linking separate historical mysteries with a common thread of human hubris.

A run of baffling illnesses and deaths sweeps through Cambridge, and Matthew cannot tell if he is facing contagion or poison. A vain new physician at Zachary Hostel only makes the search for truth harder.

A wealthy vintner's suicide and a goldsmith-banker's murder alarm London's financial elite. Sent to investigate, Chaloner finds deceit, panic, and plague moving through the city together.

As Brother Michael's hopes of becoming a bishop grow, Chancellor Tynkell is murdered and Matthew's patients begin dying alarmingly fast. Their investigation leads deep into danger for both town and university.

A theft from an asylum takes Chaloner to what should be a quiet village assignment. Instead he finds mounting murders, Dutch prisoners, and suspects on all sides.

Near Livingston Island, marine biologist Andrew Berrister spots illegal whalers closing in on a pod of blue whales. Soon the scientists themselves are the hunted, trapped with people ready to kill to keep their crimes hidden.

Back in plague-ridden London, Chaloner is asked to investigate a corpse that has been dead for twenty years. The trail leads to St Paul's Cathedral and a fight over its future that may claim fresh lives.

What should be a routine visit to Clare becomes another tangle of local feuds and suspicious deaths. Matthew and Michael arrive just in time to find a town preparing for celebration and hiding a killer.

In 1882 London, reporter Alec Lonsdale learns that a supposed fire victim was actually murdered and had part of his brain removed. With Hulda Friederichs beside him, he uncovers a conspiracy reaching into high society.

After victory over the Dutch at Lowestoft, a murdered physician and the deaths of twenty sailors land on Chaloner's desk. He has to decide whether he is facing foreign spies, palace sabotage, or betrayal from within.

Murders at a hospital on Trumpington Road seem tied to killings among university scholars. Matthew and Michael face a crowd of suspects, from royal agents to a supposed witch, with fear and rumor clouding every clue.

A body found at a grand London opening is only the first of several grisly killings of prominent men. Alec and Hulda race through Victorian society to stop a murderer who may be closing in on the Queen.

A courtier's death is ruled natural, but Clarendon orders Chaloner to treat it as murder. His search leads to the Cockpit Club, a fashionable soothsayer, and danger from some very well-connected people.

In his final term before marriage and retirement, Matthew hopes for calm and gets multiple murders instead. When two scholars vanish, he starts to fear the mastermind may be dangerously close to home.

London is recovering from plague when a series of killings linked to the Poulters' Company sets Chaloner on edge. Rumor, religious extremism, and a possible plot against the throne give him almost no time to act.