Lord John and the Plague of Zombies timeline

[Lisa]

I just read Lord John and the Plague of Zombies and I'm a bit confused on the timeline. LJ is in Jamaica but isn't the governor. It seems obvious to me that this story takes place before Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica but LJ was on the ship with Claire so they should have arrived at about the same time. So, was LJ in Jamaica before and then was later sent back as governor? Where was he before he was sent to Jamaica? Canada? England?

[Melissa]

According to DG's website, this story takes place after The Scottish Prisoner (so after December 1760), and all the Lord John books occur between 1756-1766, so before Lord John is made governor of Jamaica (in 1767). More specifically, in Voyager, Jamie and Claire are told that Barnabas Abernathy had died 18 months before they arrived in Jamaica (not sure of the month, but in 1767), and this story takes place the week after Abernathy dies. So that would place "Plague of Zombies" sometime in 1765? It's a bit of a time jump within the rest of the Lord John stories, which otherwise seem to follow each other pretty closely:

1 Lord John and the Hellfire Club - 1756
2 Lord John and the Private Matter - Jun-Aug 1757
3 Lord John and the Succubus - Sep 1757 (Germany)
4 Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade - Jan 1758
5 Lord John and the Haunted Soldier - Nov 1758
6 Lord John and The Custom of the Army - 1759 (Canada)
7 The Scottish Prisoner - April-Dec 1760
8 Lord John and the Plague of Zombies - 1765? (Jamaica)

To further complicate things, in his conversation with Jamie upon leaving Helwater (in 1764), Lord John says he's resigning his commission in the army to marry Isobel.

*edit* Upon continuing re-reading of "Plague of Zombies", I think there may be a discrepancy in the Abernathy timeline in the books. In the story, Edward Twelvetrees was killed "only recently" in a duel (and it mentions John's injuries from the duel), which happened in Nov. 1760 in The Scottish Prisoner. So it looks like "Plague of Zombies" may in fact be set in the spring of 1761 (3 months or so after The Scottish Prisoner).