There are 17 books in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series. The newest book is A Darkness in Seven Dials which came out in 2024.

1
The Hanover Square Affair

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London, 1816
Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the young woman leads to murder, corruption,…
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2
A Regimental Murder

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Captain Lacey, while helping a woman of quality prove the innocence of her husband who has been accused of murdering a cavalry officer, becomes drawn into the deadly game of a criminal mastermind. Original.

3
The Glass House

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London's high society goes to the Glass House to indulge their vices, and when one of them is found floating in the Thames, Captain Lacey uncovers jealousy and murder, as well as a few secrets of his own, while searching for justice. Original.

4
The Sudbury School Murders

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A former cavalry officer, Captain Gabriel Lacey accepts a position as secretary to Everard Rutledge, the officious, bullying headmaster of Sudbury School, to find the person responsible for a series of malicious pranks plaguing the institution, but things take a deadly turn when a stable groom is found dead. Original.

5
A Body in Berkeley Square

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When an opulent ball is marred by murder, Captain Lacey's insufferably upright former friend, Colonel Brandon, is the prime suspect. With the man's fate in his hands, Lacey finally has a chance to avenge the wrongs Brandon has done to him--but at what price?

6
A Covent Garden Mystery

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When street girls begin disappearing from Covent Garden and no one seems to care, Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons decides to look into the matter and finds his worst fear realized when his own daughter disappears and his wife's dark past is revealed. Original.

7
A Death in Norfolk

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Captain Gabriel Lacey travels with Lady Breckenridge to his boyhood home in northern Norfolk only to discover mysterious happenings in and around the Lacey estate. A young woman, cousin of an old friend, has gone missing, strange objects appear in Lacey's ruined house, and the dark windmills on the marshes…

8
A Disappearance in Drury Lane

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As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault,…

9
Murder in Grosvenor Square

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Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to.With the aid of Lucius Grenville, London’s most famous dandy, and Brewster,…

10
The Thames River Murders

By Ashley Gardner , Jennifer Ashley ,

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One morning in 1818, I am asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. I join him…

11
The Alexandria Affair

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1818: Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however—James Denis has tasked him with finding an “object” in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out…

12
A Mystery at Carlton House

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1819: Captain Lacey is drawn into affairs of the highest in the land when his friend Grenville is asked by the Prince Regent to look into odd happenings in his lavish abode of Carlton House. Objects of value have gone missing, paintings and sculpture have been moved, and the Regent…

13
Murder in St. Giles

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London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what’s more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because my wife’s late husband’s odious cousin…

14
Death at Brighton Pavilion

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When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.

The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca…

15
The Custom House Murders

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James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece, a…

16
Murder in the Eternal City

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When I agree to take my family to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I hardly imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector, one Conte de Luca. Before I can approach this count,…

17
A Darkness in Seven Dials

By Ashley Gardner , Jennifer Ashley ,

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March 1820

When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown man Denis is supposed to have killed.

I soon…