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Ladies of Lantern Street

by Amanda Quick

The Ladies of Lantern Street series by Amanda Quick has 3 known books (3 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Crystal Gardens (2012).

Books
3 known books (3 novels)
Published
3
First published
2012
Status
completed
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Start here: Crystal Gardens (2012) — then read straight through in publication order.

Book one

Cover of Crystal Gardens

Crystal Gardens (2012)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Crystal Gardens

    Novel

    Crystal Gardens (2012) opens Ladies of Lantern Street at 504 pages, the longest of the trilogy, introducing the discreet Victorian employment agency that places psychic companions and mediums with clients who need more than a chaperone.

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  2. The Mystery Woman

    Novel

    The Mystery Woman followed in 2013 at 371 pages, following a different agency placement gone dangerous alongside a hero with his own secret to manage.

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  3. Otherwise Engaged

    Novel

    At 355 pages, the shortest of the three, Otherwise Engaged (2014) closes out Amanda Quick's Ladies of Lantern Street trilogy the year after The Mystery Woman. Like its predecessors, it follows a discreet placement from the agency's Victorian roster of psychic companions and mediums that turns dangerous, paired with a hero carrying his own paranormal or scientific secret in Quick's psychic-inflected version of Victorian England.

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About the Ladies of Lantern Street series

The Ladies of Lantern Street run a discreet Victorian employment agency that places women -- psychic companions, mediums, ladies' companions -- with clients who need rather more than a chaperone, a premise that gives Quick's heroines a plausible reason to be moving through dangerous households and stranger mysteries than a respectable Victorian woman would otherwise encounter. Each of the three novels follows a different agency placement gone dangerous: a case that starts as a discreet job and turns into blackmail, murder, or worse, alongside a hero who has his own paranormal or scientific secret to manage. The series sits within the same loosely psychic-inflected version of Victorian England that Quick's Arcane Society occupies, without requiring any prior familiarity with it.

Frequently asked questions

How many Ladies of Lantern Street books are there?

Three: Crystal Gardens (2012), The Mystery Woman (2013), and Otherwise Engaged (2014).

Does Ladies of Lantern Street connect to the Arcane Society series?

It shares the same lightly psychic version of Victorian England as the Arcane Society books but does not require having read them, and follows its own separate cast.

Do I need to read the Ladies of Lantern Street books in order?

Not strictly -- each book follows a different investigator and case -- but publication order, starting with Crystal Gardens, is recommended.

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