Susanna Gregory

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle

1 - A Plague On Both Your Houses (1996)
2 - An Unholy Alliance (Dec-1996)
3 - A Bone of Contention (Oct-1997)
4 - A Deadly Brew (1998)
5 - A Wicked Deed (1999)
6 - A Masterly Murder (Jun-2000)
7 - An Order for Death (Jul-2001)
8 - A Summer of Discontent (Jun-2002)
9 - A Killer in Winter (Oct-2003)
10 - The Hand of Justice (Jun-2004)
11 - The Mark of a Murderer (Jun-2005)
12 - The Tarnished Chalice (Jun-2006)
13 - To Kill or Cure (May-2008)
14 - The Devil's Disciples (Sep-2008)
15 - A Vein of Deceit (Jul-2009)
16 - A Killer of Pilgrims (Aug-2010)
17 - Mystery in the Minster (Nov-2011)
18 - Murder by the Book (Apr-2013)
19 - The Lost Abbot (Sep-2013)
20 - Death of a Scholar (Jun-2014)
21 - A Poisonous Plot (Sep-2015)
22 - A Grave Concern (Aug-2016)
23 - The Habit of Murder (Aug-2017)
24 - The Sanctuary Murders (Nov-2019)
25 - The Chancellor's Secret (Aug-2021)

A Thomas Chaloner Mystery

1 - A Conspiracy of Violence (Jan-2006)
2 - Blood on the Strand (May-2007)
3 - The Butcher of Smithfield (May-2008)
4 - The Westminster Poisoner (Feb-2009)
5 - A Murder on London Bridge (May-2010)
6 - The Body in the Thames (Apr-2011)
7 - The Piccadilly Plot (Jan-2012)
8 - Death in St. James's Park (Apr-2013)
9 - Murder on High Holborn (Apr-2014)
10 - The Cheapside Corpse (Mar-2015)
11 - The Chelsea Strangler (Mar-2016)
12 - The Executioner of St Paul's (Mar-2017)
13 - Intrigue in Covent Garden (Aug-2018)
14 - The Clerkenwell Affair (Aug-2020)
15 - The Pudding Lane Plot (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • A Plague On Both Your Houses

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    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 1

    "A Plague on Both Your Houses" introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew . . . whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. Besides his practice, Bartholom...

  • An Unholy Alliance

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 2

    In 1350, Cambridge lies ravaged by the Black Death. Plague victims fill its graveyards, hunger haunts its filthy alleys, and superstitious folk blame the Church. Crime flourishes, too: three harlots are found with slit throats and branded feet, a fri...

  • A Bone of Contention

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 3

    For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere reissued the books with beautiful new illustrated covers.-----------------------------Cambridge in 1352 is rife with terrible clashes between the fledgling University and the tow...

  • A Deadly Brew

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    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 4

    Pestilence, poison and priests can be a deadly brew... The winter of 1353 brings new confusion to the people of Cambridge. Torrential rains spread fever to the poor and make travelling hazardous along the town's outlaw-infested roads. Then three m...

  • A Wicked Deed

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    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 5

    For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been appal...

  • A Masterly Murder

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 6

    Cambridge, 1353 - It is a damp, gloomy November day, and the body by the Cam is just the beginning of the intrigue in store for Michaelhouse... Physician Matthew Bartholomew recognised the deceased as the book-bearer of the Michaelhouse Fellow John ...

  • An Order for Death

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 7

    Cambridge, March 1354, and the cause of murder is once more on the mind of Matthew Bartholomew... It is a time of division and denomination at the great university. The Carmelites and Dominicans are at theological loggerheads, so much so that the...

  • A Summer of Discontent

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 8

    Cambridgeshire, August 1354 -- and the Bishop of Ely is accused of a most terrible murder ... Glovere was steward to Lady Blanche de Wake, a close relative of the King. A nasty, malicious gossip, his body was discovered by the banks of the River Ous...

  • A Killer in Winter

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 9

    Christmas 1354, and in Cambridge the winter is as bad as anyone can remember. But however cold the weather gets, for two individuals it is about to get even colder. A drunken attempt at blackmail by Norbert Tulyet, errant scholar of the Franciscan...



  • The Hand of Justice

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 10

    Cambridge, February 1355 and as the worst snows in living memory begin to melt, a long frozen body is revealed... As the temperature gradually rises in the Fenland town, the passions of its citizens also emerge from the winter chill. A skeletal ha...

  • The Mark of a Murderer

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 11

    For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been appal...

  • A Conspiracy of Violence

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 1

    Susanna Gregory, author of the Matthew Bartholomew series of medieval mysteries, has created another compelling fictional detective set in Restoration London.--------------------------------------------The first adventure in the Thomas Chaloner serie...

  • The Tarnished Chalice

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 12

    1356. On a bitter winter evening, Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael arrive in Lincoln--Michael to accept an honor from the cathedral, and Bartholomew to look for the woman he wants to wed. It is not long before they learn that the friary in whi...

  • Sword of Shame

    in Sword of Shame

    The Latin inscription carved on the gleaming blade read Â"He who lives in falsehood slays his soul; he who lies, his honor.†If only they had known how true those words would prove to be. The Sword of Shame was lovingly crafted by a Saxon swordsmi...

  • Blood on the Strand

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 2

    London, 1663. Rebellion is in the air. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but he soon realizes that England's capital is no haven of peace. Ordered to investigate the...

  • The Butcher of Smithfield

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 3

    Thomas Chaloner, just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and Portugal on behalf of the Queen, finds London dank and grey under leaden skies. Although he has only been away for a short while, he finds many things changed, including the gov...

  • To Kill or Cure

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 13

    In the year 1357 Cambridge University is in a sorry state. Beautiful from a distance, in close-up it's dirty and pot-holed. Careful examination of its finances reveals holes there as well. The town's landlords are demanding huge rent increases for th...

  • The Devil's Disciples

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 14

    For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been appal...

  • The Westminster Poisoner

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 4

    After the Puritan ban on Christmas festivities, Restoration London is awash with excess between Christmas Eve and Twelfth Night, but the two men found in Westminster Hall had not died from a surfeit of gluttony, but from poison. The Lord Chancellor a...



  • A Vein of Deceit

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 15

    The fifteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series.There is something very amiss in the finances of Michaelhouse. Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, there is an acute lack of funds for the upkeep of the buildings, even for decent p...

  • A Murder on London Bridge

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 5

    1664. There is an electric air of foreboding on the streets of London. An atmosphere Thomas Chaloner fears will only take a small spark to ignite into another civil war. . .----------------------------------The fifth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner ...

  • A Killer of Pilgrims

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 16

    The sixteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. When a wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse, Brother Michael and Matthew Bartholomew must find the culprit before the College is accused of foul play. At the same time, Cambridge ...

  • The Body in the Thames

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 6

    London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality.--------------------------------The sixth adventure in the Thomas Ch...

  • Mystery in the Minster

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 17

    In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in Cambridge is in need of extra funds. A legacy from the Archbishop of York of a parish close to that city promises a welcome source of income. However, there has been another claim to its ownership and i...

  • The Piccadilly Plot

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 7

    The seventh Thomas Chaloner adventure in Restoration London

     

    Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be...

  • Death in St. James's Park

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 8

    Superspy of Restoration London, Thomas Chaloner foils an uprising in his eighth outing. Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials -- and when ...

  • Murder by the Book

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 18

    The eighteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. It is drawing near to the end of term, and the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discus...

  • The Lost Abbot

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 19

    The latest episode in the popular Cambridge series of medieval mysteries, featuring the physician-cum-sleuth Matthew Bartholomew Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358, but his friendship with the lovely J...

  • Murder on High Holborn

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 9

    The ninth adventure for Chaloner sees the Restoration London spy foil a conspiracy In 1665 England faces war with the Dutch and the capital is awash with rumors of conspiracy and sedition. These are more frenetic than normal because of the recent...



  • Death of a Scholar

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 20

    The University should have been delighted when an influential courtier decides to found a new College in Cambridge, but the older Colleges are jealous of the newcomer's ostentatious wealth, and the townsfolk bitterly resent yet another academic found...

  • The Cheapside Corpse

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 10

    Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory, featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the streets of St. Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade, and a...

  • A Poisonous Plot

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 21

    In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from upstarts rivals such as Zachary Hostel. Their problems are made no easier by the hostility of the town'...

  • The Chelsea Strangler

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 11

    The eleventh historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th-century spy Thomas ChalonerIn the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyon...

  • A Grave Concern

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 22

    For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The twenty second chronicle of Ma...

  • The Executioner of St Paul's

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 12

    In another historical adventure from Susanna Gregory, Chaloner the spy investigates a murder in a plague-ravaged 17th century LondonThe plague raging through London in 1665 has emptied the city. The only people left are those too poor to flee, or tho...

  • The Habit of Murder

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 23

    In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college...

  • Intrigue in Covent Garden

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 13

    By January 1666 the plague has almost disappeared from London, leaving its surviving population diminished and in poverty. The resentment against those who had fled to the country turns to outrage as the court and its followers return, their licentio...

  • The Sanctuary Murders

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 24

    In 1360 Edward III issues a call to arms, as sporadic attacks by the French threaten to turn into a full-blown invasion. In Cambridge, fear of the enemy is magnified by the belief that foreign agents are lurking in the area. Tension runs ever higher ...

  • The Clerkenwell Affair

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 14

    In the spring of 1666 everyone's first reaction to a sudden death at the palace of White Hall is that the plague has struck, but the killing of Thomas Chiffinch was by design, not disease. Chiffinch was holder of two influential posts - Keeper of...



  • The Chancellor's Secret

    A Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle - 25

    In 1360, the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. To repair it will cost the town and the University dear, especially if its rotten wood is replaced by more durable stone. As arguments rage over raising the money other, equally heate...

  • The Pudding Lane Plot

    A Thomas Chaloner Mystery - 15

    The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susanna Gregory has published 41 books.

Susanna Gregory does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pudding Lane Plot, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Susanna Gregory, A Plague On Both Your Houses, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Susanna Gregory has 2 series.
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