Veronica Speedwell Books in Order

After her guardian's death, outspoken lepidopterist Veronica Speedwell plans to leave England for good. An attempted abduction and the murder of the German baron who tried to help her instead send Veronica and brooding natural historian Stoker on the run to solve the crime.

Veronica is summoned to London's secretive Curiosity Club and asked to save art patron Miles Ramsforth from the gallows after his mistress is murdered. With only days before his execution, she and Stoker dig through bohemian studios and royal secrets to find the real killer.

Rumors of a mummy's curse swirl when Stoker's former expedition partner disappears from an Egyptian dig, along with a priceless diadem. Veronica and Stoker investigate, following jackal headed sightings and ugly gossip into a case that threatens to drag Stoker's past into the light.

Veronica agrees, somewhat grudgingly, to pose as Lord Templeton Vane's fiancée at a house party on a remote Cornish island in exchange for access to a rare butterfly. There she and Stoker probe the three year old disappearance of the bride who vanished on her wedding day.

London in 1888 is gripped by Jack the Ripper when Veronica and Stoker are asked to quietly retrieve a compromising gift tied to Prince Albert Victor from an exclusive brothel. Working undercover, they uncover a plot that links royal scandal to the Whitechapel killings.

Tasked with curating a memorial exhibition for a pioneering woman climber, Veronica suspects the celebrated death on an Alpenwald peak was no accident. When the visiting princess of that tiny nation vanishes, Veronica is strong armed into impersonating her while she and Stoker hunt a murderer.

Veronica and Stoker travel to Hathaway Hall to investigate a man who may be the long lost heir thought dead in the eruption of Krakatoa. As questions about his identity mount, Veronica confronts painful pieces of her own past that refuse to stay buried.

When Stoker's brother Tiberius receives a chilling warning and clippings about the deaths of former friends, he fears someone is targeting an old group known as the Seven Sinners. Veronica and Stoker join a tense reunion at his Devon estate to flush out the avenger.

Asked to fit a clockwork mechanism into a lifelike "wax" Sleeping Beauty for Lord Rosemorran's collection, Stoker discovers the figure is actually a perfectly preserved corpse. He and Veronica follow the trail through macabre laboratories and travelling shows to a killer obsessed with cheating death.

Veronica and Stoker investigate when a young man's body, drained of blood, is found in a carriage outside Highgate Cemetery and a second victim soon follows. Their hunt for a secretive society promising immortality leads them to a charismatic "vampire", a witchy partner, and old friends.