Susanna Gregory books

Alec Lonsdale Reading Order

Anthologies

Matthew Bartholomew Reading Order

Medieval Murderers Reading Order

Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Reading Order

Standalone Novels

Thomas Chaloner Reading Order

Susanna Gregory is the pen name of Elizabeth Cruwys, who was born in 1958 and educated at the University of Cambridge. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a coroner’s officer in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Social Medicine and conducted field research on high-altitude diseases in the Himalayas and diving diseases on high-altitude lakes. Her academic background in forensic medicine and her years living in Cambridge give her novels an unusual level of period and procedural detail.

Her debut novel, A Plague on Both Your Houses (1996), introduced Matthew Bartholomew, a physician and teacher at the fictional Michaelhouse college in 14th-century Cambridge. That series ran for 26 books and became her signature work, with Bartholomew solving murders amid the politics, plague, and academic rivalries of medieval England. She launched a second major series with A Conspiracy of Violence (2006), following Thomas Chaloner, an ex-spy working in Restoration London during the 1660s. Alongside these two long-running series, she has written the Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Crusades-era mysteries, the Alec Lonsdale Victorian detective novels, and several entries in the Medieval Murderers collaborative series.