The first one, “Lord John and the Hellfire Club,” is set in London in 1757, and deals with a red‐haired man who approaches Lord John Grey with an urgent plea for help, just before dying in front of him. “LordJohn and the Hellfire Club” also appeared as a special, standalone paperback edition, at right.
LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS/ “Lord John and the Hellfire Club” (novella)-Just to add an extra layer of confusion, THE HAND OF DEVILS is a collection that includes three novellas. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd, in the circumstances.”) If you’re reading the series in order, rather than piecemeal, you do want to read this book before tackling the the novellas. VOYAGER (novel)-This won an award from EW magazine for “Best Opening Line.” (To save you having to find a copy just to read the opening, it was: “He was dead. And it doesn’t end how you think it’s going to, either. (1946/1743) In the U.K., the title of my first book is CROSS STITCH.ĭRAGONFLY IN AMBER (novel)-It doesn’t start where you think it’s going to. If you’re unsure about it, open the book anywhere and read three pages if you can put it down again, I’ll give you a dollar. OUTLANDER (novel)-If you’ve never read any of the series, I’d suggest starting here. So, for the reader’s convenience, here is a detailed Chronology, showing the sequence of the various elements in terms of the storyline. However, it should be noted that the shorter novels and novellas are all designed suchly that they may be read alone, without reference either to each other or to the Big, Enormous Books-should you be in the mood for a light literary snack instead of the nine‐course meal with wine‐pairings and dessert trolley. Some of the Bulges also fall in this period others don’t.
Most of the shorter novels (so far) fit within a large lacuna left in the middle of VOYAGER, in the years between 17.
These deal frequently-but not exclusively-with secondary characters, are prequels or sequels, and/or fill some lacuna left in the original story lines. The Bulges-These being short(er) pieces that fit somewhere inside the story lines of the novels, much in the nature of squirming prey swallowed by a large snake. The Shorter, Less Indescribable Novels that are more or less historical mysteries (though dealing also with battles, eels, and mildly deviant sexual practices). The Big, Enormous Books that have no discernible genre (or all of them). The Outlander series includes three kinds of stories:
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