Susanna Gregory Books in Order
Susanna Gregory has written 52 books, published between 1996 and 2022. The first book is A Plague on Both Your Houses (1996) and the newest is The Pudding Lane Plot (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 52
- Published
- 1996–2022
- Confirmed
- 52 of 52 titles
- Pages on record
- 18,794 in 44 of 52 books
- Reading time
- 313–470 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 18,794 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 44 of 52 titles with a page count on record.
Susanna Gregory is the pen name of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic and former coroner's officer who writes historical detective fiction. Matthew Bartholomew, a physician investigating murders in fourteenth-century Cambridge, carries her longest sequence, which opens with A Plague on Both Your Houses (1996). Thomas Chaloner heads a second series. Under a further name, Simon Beaufort, she wrote the Sir Geoffrey Mappestone and Alec Lonsdale books. The catalogue holds 52 books published between 1996 and 2022, and nothing has followed The Pudding Lane Plot (2022).
How many Susanna Gregory books are there?
Susanna Gregory has 52 books, released between 1996 and 2022. They include 4 separate series.
Susanna Gregory Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 52 Susanna Gregory books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119964063/4
- 219963103/4
- 319975063/4
- 4Murder in the Holy CitySir Geoffrey Mappestone Series as Simon Beaufort #11998 · 277 pages · confirmed 3/419982773/4
- 519984553/4
- 6A Head for PoisoningSir Geoffrey Mappestone Series as Simon Beaufort #21999 · 378 pages · confirmed 3/419993783/4
- 719995123/4
- 820005503/4
- 920014703/4
- 1020025203/4
- 11The Bishop's BroodSir Geoffrey Mappestone Series as Simon Beaufort #32003 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/420033203/4
- 1220034883/4
- 1320043463/4
- 14The Coiners' QuarrelSir Geoffrey Mappestone Series as Simon Beaufort #52004 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/420043523/4
- 1520045443/4
- 1620054693/4
- 1720065023/4
- 182006–3/4
- 1920074643/4
- 2020085123/4
- 2120084483/4
- 2220084873/4
- 2320094723/4
- 2420094553/4
- 252009–3/4
- 2620094683/4
- 2720104683/4
- 282010–3/4
- 2920104243/4
- 302011–3/4
- 3120113893/4
- 3220124853/4
- 332012–3/4
- 34The Murder House (As: Simon Beaufort)Susanna Gregory Standalone Novels #12013 · 250 pages · confirmed 3/420132503/4
- 3520134543/4
- 3620134163/4
- 372014–3/4
- 3820144543/4
- 3920154483/4
- 4020154003/4
- 41The Killing Ship (As: Simon Beaufort)Susanna Gregory Standalone Novels #22016 · 217 pages · confirmed 3/420162173/4
- 4220164883/4
- 4320164483/4
- 4420174483/4
- 4520174323/4
- 4620182783/4
- 4720192563/4
- 4820194643/4
- 4920194003/4
- 5020204643/4
- 512021–3/4
- 522022–3/4
Susanna Gregory series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Matthew Bartholomew books in order 25 books
Susanna Gregory books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Thomas Chaloner in order
15 books- 1. A Conspiracy of Violence
- 2. Blood on the Strand
- 3. The Butcher of Smithfield
- 4. The Westminster Poisoner
- 5. A Murder on London Bridge
- 6. The Body in the Thames
- 7. The Piccadilly Plot
- 8. Death in St James's Park
- 9. Murder on High Holborn
- 10. The Cheapside Corpse
- 11. The Chelsea Strangler
- 12. The Executioner of St Paul's
- and 3 more in the table above
Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Series as Simon Beaufort in order
8 booksSusanna Gregory Standalone Novels
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Alec Lonsdale Series as Simon Beaufort in order
2 booksDo you have to read Susanna Gregory books in order?
You only need to read Susanna Gregory books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Susanna Gregory
Start with A Plague on Both Your Houses (1996), the first Matthew Bartholomew book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Susanna Gregory book?
The Pudding Lane Plot (2022) is the newest Susanna Gregory book released so far.
Is there a new Susanna Gregory book coming?
No next Susanna Gregory book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Susanna Gregory at a glance
- Paused
- No new Susanna Gregory title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Susanna Gregory books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 18,794 pages across the 44 of 52 books with a recorded length, a median of 454 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Susanna Gregory books, 23 of 52, were published in the 2010s.
What the Susanna Gregory books are about
49 of the 52 Susanna Gregory books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 36 of 49. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 36 of 49 books
- Mystery & detective 25 of 49 books
- Matthew Bartholomew (Fictitious character) 19 of 49 books
- Physicians 16 of 49 books
- Great Britain 12 of 49 books
- Murder 11 of 49 books
- Mystery & detective, historical 11 of 49 books
- Thomas Chaloner (Fictitious character) 10 of 49 books
- Bartholomew, matthew (fictitious character) 9 of 49 books
- Investigation 9 of 49 books
- London (England) 9 of 49 books
- Intelligence service 9 of 49 books