Deryn Lake Books In Order

John Rawlings Books In Publication Order

  1. Death in the Dark Walk (1994)
  2. Death at the Beggar’s Opera (1995)
  3. Death at the Devil’s Tavern (1996)
  4. Death on the Romney Marsh (1998)
  5. Death in the Peerless Pool (1999)
  6. Death at Apothecaries’ Hall (2000)
  7. Death in the West Wind (2001)
  8. Death at St. James’s Palace (2002)
  9. Death in the Valley of Shadows (2003)
  10. Death in the Setting Sun (2004)
  11. Death and the Cornish Fiddler (2006)
  12. Death in Hellfire (2007)
  13. Death and the Black Pyramid (2009)
  14. Death at the Wedding Feast (2011)
  15. Death on the Rocks (2014)
  16. Death at the Boston Tea Party (2016)

Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. The Mills of God (2010)
  2. Dead on Cue (2012)
  3. The Moonlit Door (2015)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The King’s Women (2015)
  2. As Shadows Haunting (2015)
  3. Pour The Dark Wine (2015)
  4. To Sleep No More (2015)
  5. Banishment (2015)
  6. The Prince’s Women (2019)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Anklets (2017)
  2. The Moonlit Baths (2017)
  3. The Wardrobe (2017)
  4. The Mermaid’s Kiss (2017)
  5. The Staircase (2017)
  6. The Gemini Syndrome (2017)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Lovers Lost in Time (2018)

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Deryn Lake Books Overview

Death in the Dark Walk

When Rawlings trips over the body of a young girl in Vaux Hall Pleasure Gardens, he becomes prime suspect. Managing to clear his own name, Rawlings is asked to investigate the crime, and following a trail of lustful liaisons and illicit intrigue, he discovers dark secrets in the girl’s past.

Death at the Beggar’s Opera

A Georgian mystery, in which a Death at the Beggar’s Opera draws John Rawlings, an apothecary, on another case for the sightless magistrate known as the ‘Blind Beak’, which involves a trial of seduction and corruption.

Death at the Devil’s Tavern

This third John Rawlings mystery involves the murder of Sir William Hartfield, whose body is pulled from the Thames on the eve of his wedding. Suspecting foul play, Rawlings investigates the family and discovers not only did each member stand to gain, but each had a good motive for the murder.

Death in the West Wind

Newlyweds John and Emilia Rawlings are spending their honeymoon touring the mysterious county of Devon. The gruesome discovery of the body of a young girl, badly beaten and bruised draws the Apothecary into the investigation. Recognising the dead girl as the daughter of a Dutch merchant John realizes that he is deeply involved in something rather sinister especially when the girl’s brother, Richard, goes missing at the same time. Although he knows the identity of the dead girl, he is still no further towards finding her killer. Did her possessive father, furious with her for her wayward behavior murder her? Or is the father of her unborn child is to blame? Perhaps her fianc , Tobias Wills, exacted a deadly revenge for the betrayal? John Rawlings is determined to find some answers…
even if it means putting himself in danger.

Death at St. James’s Palace

Death at St. James’s Palace is the eight novel in the highly acclaimed Gerogian mystery series featuring the sleuthing apothecary , John Rawlings. In 1761, famous magistrate John Fielding is to be honored with a knighthood. Founder of the Runners, London’s metropolitan police force. John Fielding is one of several important members of the community who gather at St. James’s Palace for the investiture. As the invited audience eagerly crane for a first glimpse of the new queen, a terrible accident occurs when one of the crowd tumbles down the great staircase to his death. But not one person saw him begin to fall; even those standing closest to him had their eyes fixed on the royal entrance. Only one person witnessed anything untoward John Fielding, a blindman. A whispered sentence, an exhalation of breath these are the only clues available to suggest the fall was no accident. Apothecary John Rawlings, accompanying his friend Fielding to the ceremony, sets out to investigate and is soon drawn into a very intriguing mystery, in which suspicious characters abound.

Death in the Valley of Shadows

Preparing to become a father for the very first time, Apothecary John Rawlings leaves the heavily pregnant Emilia occupied with maternal matters and turns his attention to his business, rather neglected of late. Working in the shop one early afternoon, John is taken aback when a middle aged stranger rushes in through the door looking panic stricken. The man is not seeking a cure for a terrible ailment, however, but a place to hide. John agrees and a moment or two later a formidable woman comes to the counter enquiring if the Apothecary has seen anyone answering the description of the stranger he has in his back room. Honoring his promise to the man, John sends her on her way and, intrigued, goes to question the fellow.

The man’s name is Aidan Fenchurch and his pursuer is Mrs. Ariadne Bussell, a former lover who is reluctant to give up the chase. So reluctant, in fact, that she has been shadowing him for years. Feeling sympathy for Aidan, John agrees to do him a good turn, but is shocked when a few days later the man is dead, ostensibly the result of a street robbery. Suspicious, Sir John Fielding sends the Flying Runners to arrest Mrs. Bussell. However, the lady is taken ill in the coach and before she can be thoroughly questioned she dies. The Apothecary recognises the signs of fatal poisoning.

Soon there are more victims, some poisoned and some killed by less subtle methods. John Rawlings embarks on a journey that leads him to the Surrey countryside in search of answers to be greeted by some familiar faces

Death in the Setting Sun

Apothecary John Rawlings and his wife, Emilia, are delighted and honoured to be invited to a Christmas Mask gathering to be held in the grounds of Gunnersbury House, hosted by Princess Amelia, a close relation of King George II. Excited by the sense of occasion, and by her first large formal gathering since the birth of their infant daughter, Emilia spends a long time choosing and refining her costume for the ball. Once at Gunnersbury House, the event is everything the Apothecary and his wife could have wished for and John Rawlings considers Emilia the belle of the ball in her fetching red cloak to keep out the December chill. After talking to friends he catches sight of her heading outside, and follows to spend some time walking with her through the magnificent grounds. Tragically, when he finds Emilia she is bleeding to death after being stabbed through the heart. Stricken with grief, John Rawlings is numb. But when his former friends, the Blind Beak and Joe Jago, enforcers in law, are ordered to arrest him as the prime suspect, the Apothecary flees to Devon to seek help from an old ally. Discovering the identity of his wife’s murderer is crucial, not just to see Justice served, but to save his own neck from the gallows…

Death and the Cornish Fiddler

The spring of 1765 brings a welcome sense of recovery to the recently widowed Apothecary John Rawlings, but his tentative peace of mind does not last for long: a young child disappears in strange circumstances at the Hellstone Floral Dance and a seemingly omnipresent blind musician is never far away. While this mysterious figure intrigues Rawlings, the case of the missing child alarms him; he feels he must do all in his powers to attempt to rescue the young life.

Packed full of colorful historical detail, Death and the Cornish Fiddler is the eleventh book in the highly acclaimed John Rawlings series a new masterpiece from the queen of Georgian fiction.

Death in Hellfire

When John Rawlings is asked to investigate a secret club and some shady goings on, he is intrigued. The disreputable Sir Francis Dashwood is believed to be involved, as well as some illustrious members of the British aristocracy. In disguise and accompanied by the ungainly Sam Swann, John befriends Sir Dashwood and gains access to his home and family, including someone from John’s past, someone whose exceptional beauty still hypnotizes him. However, evil lurks in hidden corners of Sir Dashwood’s opulent home and there seems to be a sinister element behind the infamous Hellfire Club’s debaucheries. Is John putting himself and Sam in danger by trying to find out the truth?

Death and the Black Pyramid

A John Rawlings Georgian mystery Apothecary John Rawlings has been summoned to Devon by his beautiful but unpredictable mistress. Leaving his daughter Rose in the good care of her grandfather, Rawlings sets off for Exeter. His fellow stagecoach passengers are a motley crew, and include a large and talkative German lady, a dance master and a bare knuckle fighter known as the Black Pyramid. Before the journeys end a man has been found brutally murdered, and Rawlings is once again drawn into a complex and dangerous intrigue.

The Mills of God

From the author of the John Rawlings mysteries The sleepy, eccentric Sussex village of Lakehurst suddenly becomes a place of terror and night shadows. After dark, it is hardly safe to go out, to the consternation of the newly arrived Vicar, trendy young Nick Lawrence, and Inspector Dominic Tennant of the Sussex Police Force. For a serial killer is on the loose: one who leaves notes at the scene of his crimes signed The Acting Light of the World…

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