A Scandal in Battersea
core novel 2017 The Elemental Masters
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (2,148 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 310 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756408732 |
| Internal chronology | 15 |
Synopsis
Set during the Christmas season in an alternate early twentieth-century England, A Scandal in Battersea continues the adventures of psychics Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White, working alongside Dr. John Watson and his wife Mary to investigate a troubling pattern of disappearances. Young women, including daughters of prominent families, are vanishing without explanation and later returning in states of apparent madness, with no memory that can account for the gap. As the holiday season proceeds around them, the investigators must trace the connection between the victims and identify the supernatural force responsible before more women are taken, drawing on both psychic detection and the Watsons' established Elemental magic to uncover a threat operating largely unnoticed beneath fashionable London society.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Elemental Masters
- Series: The Elemental Masters core; position 15 of 21 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
Notes
- From the series record (The Elemental Masters): Loosely connected fairy-tale retellings unified by a shared elemental-magic system rather than a continuous cast.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Elemental Masters: position 15 of 21: previous A Study in Sable (2016) · next The Bartered Brides (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315216/a-scandal-in-battersea-by-mercedes-lackey/
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