BOOK REVIEW: Death on the Doorstep by Mary Lancaster

I received this book for free from Netgalley. That did not influence this review.

I read one more book in 2025. Just released, Death on the Doorstep is the next book in Mary Lancaster’s Silver and Grey historical mystery series. I love this series. The books can all be read as standalones, but the development of the various relationships works best in order.

In this book, Constance Silver (now Mrs. Grey) and Solomon Grey have just returned from their honeymoon. They are ready to get back to work. Solomon is a wealthy shipping magnate. Constance runs a high-class brothel and charitable training school for women who were on the streets but who want to learn more respectable trades. And together, Constance and Solomon run an investigative agency.

Constance has come to check on her “establishment” and finds that there are two dead bodies on the back steps. One is a well-respected gentleman and the other is a consumptive vagrant. From the way the bodies are posed, it looks as though they might have been killed elsewhere and deposited on her stoop.

How did they die? What is the connection between the two, if anything? Or is this part of a ploy to drive Constance and her business out of the neighborhood?

The mystery unfolds at a quick pace as the couple starts from no motive and no suspects to too many suspects and a variety of potential motives. With their signature style and grace, Constance and Solomon solve another mystery while falling ever more deeply in love.