Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Conspiracy of Violence | 2006 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 2 | Blood on the Strand | 2007 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 3 | The Butcher of Smithfield | 2008 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 4 | The Westminster Poisoner | 2009 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 5 | A Murder on London Bridge | 2009 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 6 | The Body in the Thames | 2010 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 7 | The Piccadilly Plot | 2012 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 8 | Death in St James’s Park | 2013 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 9 | Murder on High Holborn | 2014 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 10 | The Cheapside Corpse | 2015 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 11 | The Chelsea Strangler | 2016 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 12 | The Executioner of St Paul’s | 2017 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 13 | Intrigue in Covent Garden | 2019 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 14 | The Clerkenwell Affair | 2020 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
| 15 | The Pudding Lane Plot | 2022 | Susanna Gregory | Buy |
The Thomas Chaloner series is Susanna Gregory’s second major work, set in London during the 1660s. Chaloner is a former intelligence agent who served under Cromwell’s spymaster John Thurloe, which makes him politically suspect after the Restoration of Charles II. Unable to find regular work, he takes a position with the Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Chancellor, and spends the series investigating crimes that the powerful would prefer to keep hidden.
A Conspiracy of Violence (2006) introduces Chaloner as he returns to an England he barely recognizes, where old allies are being executed and former enemies now hold power. The series progresses through the major events of the decade, with the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London both featuring in later books. The Pudding Lane Plot (2022), the fifteenth entry, takes its name from the street where the Great Fire began. Gregory uses the same approach she developed in the Matthew Bartholomew series (detailed period research, a large recurring cast, and murder plots woven through real historical events) but applies it to a very different era, trading medieval Cambridge for the louche, paranoid atmosphere of Restoration London.