Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind of a Killer | 2018 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 2 | Watchers of the Dead | 2019 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
The Alec Lonsdale series is set in Victorian London, a newer addition to Susanna Gregory’s lineup of historical mystery series. Mind of a Killer (2018) introduces Lonsdale as a detective faced with a string of murders that test the limits of the era’s investigative methods. Watchers of the Dead (2019) continues his work in the same period, with a new set of crimes and political complications.
The two books draw on the same attention to historical detail that defines Gregory’s longer-running series. Where the Matthew Bartholomew novels recreate medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner books reconstruct Restoration London, the Alec Lonsdale novels bring late Victorian England to life, with its gas-lit streets, early forensics, and rigid class divisions providing the backdrop for murder investigations.