Susanna Gregory Standalone Novels books in order

Reading order

Susanna Gregory’s standalone novels show a different side of her writing. The Murder House (2013) and The Killing Ship (2016) are both set in the present day, a sharp departure from the 14th-century Cambridge and 1660s London settings of her main series. The Murder House is a thriller centered on a property with a violent history, while The Killing Ship moves the action to the Antarctic.

These two books demonstrate Gregory’s range beyond historical mystery, though they remain grounded in the same careful plotting and sense of place that characterize her period fiction. They were published under the Susanna Gregory name rather than the Simon Beaufort pseudonym she sometimes uses for non-series historical fiction.